[Haskell-cafe] Trapped by the Monads

[Mark Carter]

Greg Buchholz wrote:

>    Have you read...
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>    http://haskell.org/hawiki/ThatAnnoyingIoType
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Thanks. I'll take a look at it. I also need to take a look at the basic 
Haskell syntax. An interesting-looking web page which discusses monads is:
http://www.nomaware.com/monads/html/analogy.html

What struck me was this bit of code:

assemblyLine w = (return w) >>= makeChopsticks >>= polishChopsticks >>= wrapChopsticks


Interestingly, this looks like Forth (!), where you put a value on the 
stack, and successive operations fiddle with the stack as a series of 
transformations. Not that I know Forth, you understand. Hmm, so Haskell 
can be a concatenative language if you want it to be.



	
	
		
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