As one who has dabbled with Haskell a bit here and there, "programmable semicolon" is the most apt metaphor I've seen. Every time I have to break up a chain of

As one who has dabbled with Haskell a bit here and there, "programmable semicolon" is the most apt metaphor I've seen. Every time I have to break up a chain of method calls in Java with several lines of ternary null checks, I think about the Maybe monad.