> One of my biggest gripes with Rust (and other languages) is lack of a good monad abstraction (and accompanying syntactic sugar). But I also acknowledge that t

> One of my biggest gripes with Rust (and other languages) is lack of a good monad abstraction (and accompanying syntactic sugar). But I also acknowledge that this is a "I have done too much category theory" problem and and_then is probably a more reasonable name to those not familiar with this particular area of maths. I'm happy that Rust has iterators and I don't have to think about what a monad is at all.