so are monads whats holding the nuclear waste or whats holding the apples?
;) On 2/1/07, Frederick Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And we have reached the monadic equivalent of Schrodinger's cat. On 1/31/07, Eric Y. Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Haskellers, > > In the recent HWN, I noticed a new monad metaphor by Don Stewart: > Think of a monad as a spacesuite full of nuclear waste in the ocean next to a > container of apples. now, you can't put oranges in the space suite or the > nucelar waste falls in the ocean, *but* the apples are carried around > anyway, and you just take what you need > > This metaphor very clearly captures the essence of monads. Perhaps it > will be even more helpful if accompanied by a small illustration: > http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2007/01/think-of-monad.html > > I hope this turns out to be useful to somebody, > > -- > Eric Kow http://www.loria.fr/~kow > PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 Merci de corriger mon français. > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > -- Frederick Ross Graduate Fellow, (|Siggia> + |McKinney>)/sqrt(2) Lab The Rockefeller University Je ne suis pas Fred Cross! _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
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