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> But then one could claim that monads are a palliative idiom for pain points in function-oriented languages, with at least as much justification. Arrays are a
by msla 7y ago
> But then one could claim that monads are a palliative idiom for pain points in function-oriented languages, with at least as much justification.
Arrays are a monad. I think some monads can be described that way, but monads as a whole run into the "tensor trouble" of being so damned general that nothing can really be said about them... except for useless generalities.
- sampo 7y agoDesign Patterns could be general too, but usually we mean the common patterns. So you could equally talk about the commonly used monadic patterns.