[Haskell-cafe] dumb monad syntax question

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

mvanier:
> I've been reading Phil Wadler's monad papers from the early '90s, and it's 
> been interesting to see how the monad concept evolved over the course of 
> those years. But I haven't been able to track down the first use of the 
>  "do" notation for monads.  Can anyone tell me where that came from?  I'd 
> appreciate paper citations if it was presented initially in a paper.
> 

Check one of the papers here:
    http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Research_papers/Monads_and_arrows#Monads