
16 Feb
2001
16 Feb
'01
9:17 a.m.
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:
My inquiry proved beyond any doubt that my students are so conditioned by "C", that despite the fact that we worked with monads for several weeks, they *cannot imagine* that "return z" may mean something different than the value of "z".
Any suggestions?
Perhaps the name "return" in the monadic definitions could be replaced by something more suggestive of an action? How about running a little experiment next time, with a new name, to see whether this would remove this unfortunate association with C-like "return" in the minds of your students? Jan