[Haskell-cafe] Writing "Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'"

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Andrew Wagner wrote:

> I think there are some great ideas here, and it would be a fantastic
> project to do as a community, via a wikibook. I, for one, have been
> studying haskell for several months, and am just starting to see a
> little bit of light when it comes to monads. I think it would be
> beneficial to work through a non-trivial construction of a new monad,
> and the larger examples given would be good opportunities to do that.
> 

FWIW, if the book's going to use GADTs then they make building monads 
without the use of monad transformers much easier - much like constructing 
a simple virtual machine or interpreter. Which IMO reinforces an important 
intuition about just what we use monads for.

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