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I read the book a while back and it is absolutely fantastic. What I understand about monads, I learnt it from this book (no other exposition of monads ever made
by abraxasz 12y ago
I read the book a while back and it is absolutely fantastic. What I understand about monads, I learnt it from this book (no other exposition of monads ever made sense to me), and I particularly like his progression functors -> applicative functors -> monads. I think it's the clearest way to proceed (certainly helped me a lot anyways)
- coolsunglasses 12y agoWhen I teach Haskell, I like to take a diversion from Applicatives to Monoids before going to Monads. Understanding join is pretty valuable for understanding Monads too.
- tel 12y agoYou can do Applicative -> Alternative and study Alternatives as Monoids of Applicatives and then lay on the difference between (<*>) and (<>) as producing a seminearring! And then go study Monads because why not. They're kind of cool, too.
- coolsunglasses 12y agoActually you just reminded me that I need to explain sums and products in terms of a seminearring.