On 8/1/07, Andrew Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This seems wrong to me. A monad is, first and foremost, a type > constructor class. I'm not sure how you can really compare that to a > loop. But perhaps the easiest way to test your definition would be to > ask this: How is, for example, the Maybe monad like a loop, in your > definition?
As a beginner haskeller coming from an imperative experience, I think I understood what he meant. say you have this code : putStrLn "1" >> putStrLn "2" >> putStrLn "3" you can imagine each of the calls to putStrLn gets implicitly passed a variable (here, the world ) and they happen in succession so it's "like a loop". Except that a loop... loops so the comparison is far fetched. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
