[Haskell-cafe] Re: Practical introduction to monads

[Paul Moore]

David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> writes:

> A very nice simple starting monad from the Prelude to consider when
> thinking about these things is Maybe.

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> It took me a long time before I realized I could do this,

Wow, that's a really nice example.

> For more complicated practical examples (and only sporadically documented),
> you could look at some of the darcs source code.
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Hmm, I've had on my list to look at the source of Darcs (and Pugs) as
nice "real-life" large-scale programs. I'm not sure I'm ready yet,
but maybe I should see how I go...

Thanks for the comments,
Paul.
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