>Writing out monadic code explicitly gets to be a huge pain when using monads in another language. Couldn't any other language have a syntax like thing.do

>Writing out monadic code explicitly gets to be a huge pain when using monads in another language. Couldn't any other language have a syntax like thing.do(\x -> other thing(x)).do( \x -> yet another thing(x)).do( a function).do( more stuff).do( etc) And then replace "\x -> whatever" with the local language's lambda syntax. The only time you get the painful nested parens is if you want thing.do( \x -> f(x).do( \y -> g(x,y))) It's not too terribly bad.