[Haskell-cafe] Practical introduction to monads

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Paul Moore wrote:

> I've started learning Haskell, and I'm going through all the tutorial
> material I can find - there's a lot of good stuff available.
>
> One thing I haven't found a really good discussion of, is practical
> examples of building monads.

I've not really seen any. Something that might help though is considering 
winding the state of an abstract machine through a monad? That covers a 
lot of examples (parsing and the List monad come to mind).

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