[Haskell-cafe] Re: Can we come out of a monad?

[Tillmann Rendel]

Hi,

I wrote:
> There is nothing special about monads!

Kevin Jardine wrote:
> I've seen plenty of comments suggesting that monads are easy to
> understand, but for me they are not.

My point was that monads are not a language feature whith special 
treatment of the compiler, but more like a design pattern or a standard 
interface, a way of using the language. There is no compiler magic about 
monads. Therefore, they can, in principle, be understand by reading 
their definition in Haskell.

Nevertheless, I agree that it is hard to understand monads, because they 
are a clever way of using Haskell and use several of Haskell's more 
advanced features.

   Tillmann