1 Aug
2007
1 Aug
'07
4:16 a.m.
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 17:02, Kaveh Shahbazian wrote:
This is about to put a definition/description to test. So please cooperate! ;) Is this a useful – sufficient, not complete – definition/description for a monad; for an imperative mind: (?)
"A monad is like a loop that can run a new function against it's variable in each iteration."
At least in the context of Haskell, that's not correct. For a recent discussion about a simple definition of Haskell monads, see the thread beginning at: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/25882 Alexis.