28 Feb
2005
28 Feb
'05
3:22 p.m.
The reason was that error messages for beginners' code were rather baffling. (And pretty baffling for some experts too!)
I don't understand how they could be more baffling than any other type errors involving monads. Can you give an example? (I could not find any, only mentions of them.) Maybe error messages were less clear then? Or maybe understanding of monads was less pervasive?
Beginners are taught lists and list comprehensions before they are taught monads. The errors they saw involved monads, which they didn't yet know about. Confusion reigned. --KW 8-)