[Haskell-cafe] Haskell & monads for newbies (was "Functional dependencies *not* part of the next Haskell standard?")

[Andrew Coppin]

D.V. wrote:
> On 7/12/07, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> 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 you.
>
> It adds to the complexity of something that is indeed, not so
> difficult after all.

What was the phrase? "Monads are possibly the most tutorialised concept 
ever..."?

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.)

Maybe I'll give it a shot some day. ;-)