I would agree. Also, the LINQ interface is the monadic interface with Bind / >>= renamed to SelectMany and return renamed to ToIdentity. You can use these direc

I would agree. Also, the LINQ interface is the monadic interface with Bind / >>= renamed to SelectMany and return renamed to ToIdentity. You can use these directly or with syntax sugar, so i would suggest that they have already turned up in a language. Anecdotally, I think microsoft flubbed the introduction by overemphasizing LINQ to SQL. This leaving a lot of developers I know thinking it was a one trick pony and never learning (for instance) LINQ over IEnumerable. Those who have since taken time to learn the non-SQL LINQ features do wonder how the lived without them.