1 Sep
2006
1 Sep
'06
2:48 a.m.
Hello Benjamin, Thursday, August 31, 2006, 9:23:55 PM, you wrote:
The background for my question is an argument I had some time ago with someone about what the 'real nature' of monads is. He argued that monads are mainly about 'chaining' (somehow wrapped up) values in an associative way, refering to the monad laws.
my understanding of monads is that monad is a way to combine functions. 'bind' operator defines algorithm of this combining for each concrete monad. some monads thread values, some spread them, some just sequence computations -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com