yep. as the OP said: There is a reason why most monad tutorials use Haskell: without syntactic support, monads are pretty clunky to use. (You could probaby go

yep. as the OP said: There is a reason why most monad tutorials use Haskell: without syntactic support, monads are pretty clunky to use. (You could probaby go further and say "without semantic support.")