On 2010-03-01 15:44 +0100 (Mon), Günther Schmidt wrote:
Apart from monads there are of course also Applicative Functors, Monoids, Arrows and what have you. But in short the Monad thingy seems to be the most "powerful" one of them all.
Perhaps not exactly. I build monads left and right, but that's because
I don't understand much else. :-) Before you get all hung up on them,
though, I recommend reading "The Typeclassopedia,"[1], which will
introduce you to all of the monad's friends and family.
[1]: http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/monadreader-13-is-out/
cjs
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Curt Sampson