On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> wrote: > At it's heart, monads are "just" syntactic convenience, but like many > other syntactic conveniences, allows you to structure your code better. > Thus it's more about programmer efficiency than program efficiency. > (The "do notation" is syntactic sugar for >>= and >>).
Well, in a sense yes, but there's more to it than "do" notation -- that's just syntactic sugar. The real power is like any typeclass: algorithms (in this case sequenceM, forever, liftM, etc.) that work on all monads without having to write code for each instance. --Max _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
