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16 replies on 2 pages. Most recent reply: Mar 5, 2009 9:51 AM by James Watson

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Kay Schluehr

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Nickname: schluehk
Registered: Jan, 2005

Re: Much Ado About Monads

Posted: Mar 2, 2009 4:42 AM

> There are also simple OO (Java) solutions that do similar
> things. When people talk about Monads, they make them
> sound really special. I guess I was expecting something
> more.

IMO the article written by Dyer using C# is a pretty good introduction:

http://blogs.msdn.com/wesdyer/archive/2008/01/11/the-marvels-of-monads.aspx

It also doesn't waste much time trying to explain Haskell esoterica. My path of understanding monads followed the same way a while ago i.e. considering monads as a custom way of expressing a generalized function composition. This works well because it is a reasonable interpretation of the formal apparatus ( not just tons of divergent special cases ).

Dyers article demonstrates how the concept can be applied using LINQ syntax. This is not by chance because LINQ itself is designed to support "monadic comprehensions".

James Watson

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Nickname: watson
Registered: Sep, 2005

Re: Much Ado About Monads

Posted: Mar 5, 2009 9:51 AM

Thanks a bunch Kay. I get it now. My only critiques are that term 'amplified' is used throughout but never defined in context of the article and that it's a bit terse.

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