On Wednesday 01 August 2007 17:02, Kaveh Shahbazian wrote: > This is about to put a definition/description to test. So please cooperate! > ;) > Is this a useful – sufficient, not complete – definition/description for a > monad; for an imperative mind: (?) > > "A monad is like a loop that can run a new function against it's variable > in each iteration."
At least in the context of Haskell, that's not correct. For a recent discussion about a simple definition of Haskell monads, see the thread beginning at: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/25882 Alexis. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
