[Haskell-cafe] Explaining monads

[Dan Piponi]

On 8/14/07, Sebastian Sylvan <sebastian.sylvan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like the very light weight analogy (which works for most practical
> uses of monads) that a monadic action is a "recipe"

Many introductory programming books present the idea of a program as a
recipe. Here's a recipe for computing factorials:

fact 0 = 1
fact n = n*fact (n-1)

Where do monads come in?
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Dan