[Haskell-cafe] dumb monad syntax question

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Mon May 15 08:16:08 EDT 2006


Hello mvanier,

Monday, May 15, 2006, 7:04:11 AM, you wrote:

> I've been reading Phil Wadler's monad papers from the early '90s, and it's been
> interesting to see how the monad concept evolved over the course of those years.
>   But I haven't been able to track down the first use of the "do" notation for
> monads.  Can anyone tell me where that came from?  I'd appreciate paper
> citations if it was presented initially in a paper.

"do" notation is not new concept, it's just syntax sugar for ">>"
and ">>=" operations :)

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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