Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Monades - I've got it! (hopefully)

2009-01-28 Thread Johannes Waldmann
in F# they renamed Monad to Workflow, I don't think this is helpful, I didn't claim ... at least it's a funny attempt to introduce warm fuzzy thing terminology. it only really works for state-like monads. Workflow doesn't make sense at all for [a], for example. Well, it could be seen as

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Monades - I've got it! (hopefully)

2009-01-28 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Johannes Waldmann waldm...@imn.htwk-leipzig.de wrote: About the prestress, that's one of the motivations behind renaming them (warm fuzzy thing is the current tongue-in-cheek alternative). in F# they renamed Monad to Workflow, see e.g. Chapter 9 (p.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Monades - I've got it! (hopefully)

2009-01-27 Thread George Pollard
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 12:05 +, Johannes Waldmann wrote: in F# they renamed Monad to Workflow, see e.g. Chapter 9 (p. 230) in the Expert F# book. http://www.expert-fsharp.com/default.aspx I don't think this is helpful, it only really works for state-like monads. Workflow doesn't make sense

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Monades - I've got it! (hopefully)

2008-12-24 Thread Johannes Waldmann
About the prestress, that's one of the motivations behind renaming them (warm fuzzy thing is the current tongue-in-cheek alternative). in F# they renamed Monad to Workflow, see e.g. Chapter 9 (p. 230) in the Expert F# book. http://www.expert-fsharp.com/default.aspx Also, comparing with C#