Hello fellow Haskellers, When I read questions from Haskell beginners, it somehow seems like they try to avoid monads and view them as a last resort, if there is no easy non-monadic way. I'm really sure that the cause for this is that most tutorials deal with monads very sparingly and mostly in the context of input/output. Also usually monads are associated with the do-notation, which makes them appear even more special, although there is really nothing special about them. I appeal to all experienced Haskell programmers, especially to tutorial writers, to try to focus more on how monads are nothing special, when talking to beginners. Let me tell you that usually 90% of my code is monadic and there is really nothing wrong with that. I use especially State monads and StateT transformers very often, because they are convenient and are just a clean combinator frontend to what you would do manually without them: passing state. Greets, Ertugrul. -- nightmare = unsafePerformIO (getWrongWife >>= sex) http://blog.ertes.de/