All, please no language flamewar / troll / whatever on this ml. There are other places for that, as you've already cited.
2010/7/20 Nicolas Oury <nicolas.o...@gmail.com> > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Sang Noir <noir.sangn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Me: So why isn't "Monad" called "DataStructure" > > Me: Because they are not data structures. > They are an abstraction that can represent computations. One kind of > computation are the non-deterministic ones. > They look like lists. > > But parsing, continuations, states program are monads. > m a means a computation that returns something of type a. > > That's actually a concept that has a meaning even in a dynamically > typed language. > And it can be useful in Clojure, too. You can put the do notation as a > macro and use this useful abstraction. > > One particular monad is a list and another one (the free monad) is a > tree representing programs. But most monad are not data structures. > That's far more general than that. > > Haskell is a great language and brings a lot of clever ideas. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
