Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2005 13:15 schrieb Creighton Hogg: > [...] > Monads, I believe, can be just thought of as containers for state.
I would say that you are talking especially about the I/O monad here. A monad as such is a rather general concept like a group is in algebra. The important point of the integration of imperative programming in Haskell is not that it's done using monads. The point is that you have a specific type (IO) whose values are descriptions of I/O actions, and some primitive operations on IO values. The IO type together with two of these primitive operations forms a monad but this is secondary in my opinion. > [...] Best wishes, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
