so are monads whats holding the nuclear waste or whats holding the apples?<br><br>;)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frederick Ross</b> <<a href="mailto:madhadron@gmail.com">
madhadron@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">And we have reached the monadic equivalent of Schrodinger's cat.
<br><br>On 1/31/07, Eric Y. Kow <<a href="mailto:eric.kow@gmail.com">eric.kow@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Dear Haskellers,<br>><br>> In the recent HWN, I noticed a new monad metaphor by Don Stewart:<br>> Think of a monad as a spacesuite full of nuclear waste in the ocean next to a
<br>> container of apples. now, you can't put oranges in the space suite or the<br>> nucelar waste falls in the ocean, *but* the apples are carried around<br>> anyway, and you just take what you need<br>
><br>> This metaphor very clearly captures the essence of monads. Perhaps it<br>> will be even more helpful if accompanied by a small illustration:<br>> <a href="http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2007/01/think-of-monad.html">
http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2007/01/think-of-monad.html</a><br>><br>> I hope this turns out to be useful to somebody,<br>><br>> --<br>> Eric Kow <a href="http://www.loria.fr/~kow">http://www.loria.fr/~kow
</a><br>> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 Merci de corriger mon français.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Haskell-Cafe mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org">
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