Gwern Branwen wrote:
On 0, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled:
I've seen comments in various places that monads allow you to "borrow
things from the future".
That sounds completely absurd to me... can anybody explain?
Take a look at issue 6 of The Monad Reader; search for time travel.
<http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Monad.Reader>
Mmm... yes... I've read this before. It didn't make any sense then
either. (The example is too big and complicated. It obscures the thing
it's trying to illustrate...)
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