[Haskell-cafe] monads once again: a newbie perspective

[Lennart Augustsson]

I like sigfpe's introduction to monads:

http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads- 
and.html

	-- Lennart

On Aug 26, 2006, at 14:04 , Andrea Rossato wrote:

> Il Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 01:13:58PM -0400, Cale Gibbard ebbe a  
> scrivere:
>> Hey cool, a new monad tutorial! :)
>>
>> Just out of interest, have you seen my Monads as Containers article?
>> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Monads_as_Containers
>>
>> Let me know what you think of it. I find that often newcomers to
>> monads will find the container perspective easier to grasp before
>> moving on to treating monads as an abstraction of computation, but
>> that side of things needs coverage too. :)
>
> Sure I've read it!
> I must confess I find it difficult, though. I mean, the
> exemplification part is very interesting but, for me, it was too
> difficult to connect it to the code I was looking at.
>
> This is way I decided this approach: let's start building a monad and
> see what it is by actually looking it at work.
>
> The evaluator is a very simple piece of code, you can clearly see what
> it does.
> And then you start building up your knowledge by expanding it.
> Take into account that, for me, *writing* that tutorial is *the* way
> to get to grasp all the concepts behind the type system (and monads).
>
> As you can see in a thread below, I'm studying hard in order to find
> out the proper continuation of the tutorial, and for my learning.
>
> So far I'll be able to describe the code of a statefull evaluator that
> produces output. Then I'd like to add exception handling.
> Let's see if I'll be able to get that far...
>
> By the way, I'll soon add links to the other important tutorials on
> monads: yours, IO Inside, All about monads.
> At the I'd like to be able to link A Gentle introduction, the
> Haskell 98 Report and, why not, "Write yourself a Scheme in 48
> hours".
> That will be it.
>
> Thanks for your kind attention.
> Andrea
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