On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:40 AM, James Keats <james.w.ke...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Jul 12, 2:36 pm, Tamreen Khan <histor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Are monads all that special? My understanding is that even in Haskell > > its wise to not use monads all that much, since it starts to make the > > code look a little too imperative if not wielded correctly. They're > > not really the meat of haskell/fp. Macros on the other hand are an > > important part of lisp, although their overuse is also discouraged :) > > > > My humble understanding is that macros complicate composability, > whereas monads facilitate it. > Monads bring their own composability issues. Read up on monad transformers and how they result in complexities like the monad zipper. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
