[Haskell-cafe] On the verge of ... giving up!

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Oct 14, 2007, at 22:54 , Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

> The really amazing thing about the IO Monad in Haskell is that
> there *isn't* any magic going on.  An level of understanding
> adequate for using the I/O and State monads stuff (that is,
> adequate for practically anything analogous to what you might
> do in another language) goes like this:
(...)

I like an explanation dons gave once the best:  A Monad is a  
programmable semicolon.

That pretty much sums it up, nice and simple.  Everything else is  
just scaffolding.

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