[Haskell-cafe] continuations and monads

2013-08-17 Thread Christopher Howard
Q: Are the continuations in Scheme related to the monads from Haskell? If so, could someone elaborate on that? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] continuations and monads

2013-08-17 Thread Tikhon Jelvis
Yes they are. Purely intuitively, you can see how writing code in a monadic style (using = a lot) is very similar to writing in continuation-passing style. You can express this the most directly with the continuation monad. Then, from this monad, you can express other monads. In some sense, the