On Oct 14, 2007, at 22:54 , Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
The really amazing thing about the IO Monad in Haskell is that
there *isn't* any magic going on. An level of understanding
adequate for using the I/O and State monads stuff (that is,
adequate for practically anything analogous to what you might
do in another language) goes like this:
(...)
I like an explanation dons gave once the best: A Monad is a
programmable semicolon.
That pretty much sums it up, nice and simple. Everything else is
just scaffolding.
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