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Xerophyte
Mar 17, 2008

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Bloody posted:

What's a monad?

It's way of introducing state and contextual data in a functional program without breaking referential transparency, i.e. the compiler can still be safe in knowing that "f(2)" will do the same thing everywhere. Having them lets Haskell be a pure language and still have IO functions that aren't passing around a bunch of buffers everywhere, for instance.

It's also a monoid in the category of endofunctors, of course.

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