On 8/14/07, Sebastian Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like the very light weight analogy (which works for most practical > uses of monads) that a monadic action is a "recipe"
Many introductory programming books present the idea of a program as a recipe. Here's a recipe for computing factorials: fact 0 = 1 fact n = n*fact (n-1) Where do monads come in? -- Dan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe