On Saturday 14 July 2007 05:21, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Still, while the concept is simple, it's hard to sum up in just a few
> words what a monad "is". (Especially given that Haskell has so many
> different ones - and they seem superficially to bear no resemblence to
> each other.)
Well, how abou
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 15:08 +0200, D.V. wrote:
> On 7/12/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Monads take a while to "get used to", but they're not so scary after that...
>
> The problem with monads is that there is a gazillion tutorials to
> explain them, each with their own analog
D.V. wrote:
On 7/12/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Monads take a while to "get used to", but they're not so scary after
that...
The problem with monads is that there is a gazillion tutorials to
explain them, each with their own analogy that works well for the
author but not nece
On 7/12/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Monads take a while to "get used to", but they're not so scary after that...
The problem with monads is that there is a gazillion tutorials to
explain them, each with their own analogy that works well for the
author but not necessarily for y
Hello peterv,
Thursday, July 12, 2007, 6:01:43 PM, you wrote:
> Haskell or typically N times shorter than their imp/OO counterparts, it
> would take *me* at least N^2 longer to write them ;) (now I must admit I had
> the same feeling when switching from 680x0 assembler to C++, but let's say
> N*2
peterv wrote:
It looks like its gonna take a long time for me to learn Haskell. I'm not
sure if my long history of imperative and object-oriented programming has
something to do with it. Reading Haskell books like SOE is one thing, but
writing software in Haskell is really difficult for me.
It
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:01 +0200, peterv wrote:
> Thanks for the advice. I did not really deeply investigate the monad type
> classes yet...
>
> It looks like its gonna take a long time for me to learn Haskell. I'm not
> sure if my long history of imperative and object-oriented programming has
>
Hello peterv,
Thursday, July 12, 2007, 6:01:43 PM, you wrote:
> Monads were very confusing because I first looked at Concurrent Clean (it
> comes with an IDE and games! :), and that language uses a simple "uniqueness
> typing" approach where the "world" or "state" is explicitly passed as an
> obj
Thanks for the advice. I did not really deeply investigate the monad type
classes yet...
It looks like its gonna take a long time for me to learn Haskell. I'm not
sure if my long history of imperative and object-oriented programming has
something to do with it. Reading Haskell books like SOE is on
