RE [Haskell-cafe] Monad Description For Imperative Programmer

[Frank Buss]

> How does all this map to C++? A monad is a a class, with no useful 
> interface for the end user, that looks roughly (i.e. I haven't tested 
> it) like:

trying to implement it in other languages is a good idea for understanding
monads. I've tried this with the Maybe monad in Lisp:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/3bd8ecfb6cfd6601

There are other tries in Scheme and Lisp, even a general Arrows approach
IIRC.

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