[Haskell-cafe] Re: Tutorial uploaded

[Daniel Carrera]

Peter Simons wrote:
> In my humble
> opinion, it's unfortunate that many tutorials and
> introductionary texts leave the impression that monadic code
> would be something utterly different than "normal" Haskell
> code. I feel it intimidates the reader by making a monad
> appear like black magic, even though it's little more than
> syntactic sugar to describe implicit function arguments.

I'm scared of monads :)  I really don't know what a monad is. All I know 
is that you need it for IO because IO implies side-effects and I know 
that "Monad" is a very scary-looking word :)

> If we'd have an opaque "World" type instead of the IO monad,
> 'putStrLn' would be:
> 
>   putStrLn :: String -> World -> World

That seems less scary.


Cheers,
Daniel.
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