On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Tymur Porkuian <shooshpanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > For me, the key to understanding monads was that monad is "a value > that know how to apply functions to itself". Or, more correctly, a > container that knows how to apply functions to whatever is inside it.
You've just described a Functor rather than a Monad. :-) -- Dan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe