On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Johannes Waldmann <waldmann@imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote:

> > About the prestress, that's one of the motivations behind renaming
> > them ("warm fuzzy thing" is the current tongue-in-cheek alternative).

in F# they renamed "Monad" to "Workflow",
see e.g. Chapter 9 (p. 230) in the "Expert F#" book.
http://www.expert-fsharp.com/default.aspx
 
I thought it was called "computation expressions",and workflow was just a special case (e.g. asynchronous work flows for the async monad)?
See e.g. http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2007/09/22/some-details-on-f-computation-expressions-aka-monadic-or-workflow-syntax.aspx
 

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