> > However, I note that Maybe is an instance of Monad. What for?
>
> Someone, I think at Glasgow, has a web page called something
> like "What the hell are monads?", which I thought gave a pretty
> good practical description of them. I can't remember who
> made this page, though. Anybody know who/where it was?
> It's been mentioned on this list in the past couple of
> months, I think.
Noel Winstanley. http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~nww/Monad.html
You can find this and other information at the Haskell Bookshelf at
http://haskell.org.
Many of the Haskell designers also have interesting and useful papers
available from their own web pages. You can find those links, for example,
in the online version of the Haskell 98 Report,
http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/onlinereport/.
--FC
