The (>>=) operation for the state monad can be implemented with no understanding at all. Just watch djinn make the code for it. And djinn doesn't understand the state monad, I promise. :)
-- Lennart 2008/10/15 David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:08 AM, John Lato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my OP, and also perhaps >> clarify one point. I wasn't trying to be argumentative or negative >> about any work people have done to make Haskell approachable for OO >> programmers (or any other programmers, for that matter). I simply >> wanted to know what others thought about one item that was misleading >> to me in particular, and to see if others either agreed with me or had >> similar experiences. >> >> That being said, I know that it's a great deal of work to put together >> a useful tutorial, and I appreciate every one I read. Especially the >> monad tutorials, of which it took a half dozen before I got it. > > I've read a lot of the Monad tutorials, and I feel like I only get "most of > it" to be 100% honest. The State Monad still boggles my mind a little bit. > I understand what it's supposed to do and I get the idea about how it > works. It's just that when I look at the implementation of >>= for it, I > want to crawl into a corner and nibble my fingers. > Ok, it's not that bad, but I'll admit I've gone cross-eyed a few times > trying to keep all that state in my head about what's REALLY going on there. > Perhaps if it were pulled apart step by step I'd have a better > understanding. > I even tried to implement it once, and failed, however, I never seem to fail > to be able to *use* it if someone already implements it for me :-). Kind of > like how I know how to operate a car, but I wouldn't trust driving one that > I built :-) > Dave > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
