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 Computer Programmer http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-core http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-emacs _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
