[Haskell-cafe] Before

Jonathan Cast jcast at ou.edu
Tue Jul 3 12:01:45 EDT 2007


On Tuesday 03 July 2007, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Jonathan Cast wrote:
> > On Monday 02 July 2007, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> > > What were monads like before they became a Haskell language construct?
> > >
> > > Is Haskell's idea of a "monad" actually anywhere close to the original
> > > mathematical formalism?
> > >
> > > Just being randomly curiose...
> >
> > Curiosity can be a dangerous thing . . .
> >
> > Short answer: they're equivalent, or rather, Haskell monads are
> > equivalent to what Haskellers would naturally write when translating
> > mathematical monads into Haskell. ...
>
> How about preserving that mail in a HaskellWiki article?

I should not that doing this makes the monad-free web particularly 
hilarious . . .

http://saxophone.jpberlin.de/MonadTransformer?source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehaskell%2Eorg%2Fhaskellwiki%2FCategory%5Ftheory%2FMonads&language=English

-- 
Sincerely,
Jonathan Cast
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