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The author is really more accurately talking about free monads. With free monads, you make the nomadic structure clear and defer the interpretation of monastic

• dllthomas 5y ago
  > definitely not every day defining their own bind or return as data. I mean, thunks? But yeah, certainly not at the level we usually think of when we talk about defining data in Haskell. But I can see labeling that an implementation issue. You need to get your dictionary to the right place somehow, and lacking the automatic type-driven threading of type classes I don't know that writing an interpreter for each is the wrong choice. For a lot of monads (reader, state, etc) you want an "interpreter" anyway. It does mean that regular values can't happen to have a relevant monad that you can use to stitch them together in a way that wasn't noticed by the person who created the value.