You missed the point though with that. It's explicitly not a monad if it doesn't have an equivalent of bind. If I need to write an imperative function to proces

You missed the point though with that. It's explicitly not a monad if it doesn't have an equivalent of bind. If I need to write an imperative function to process the monad into another it's not a monad. If however I have a List<byte> and would like it to become Maybe<UInt128>. A loop is always a jmp of some sort, a bind though could become a SIMD operation or be passed off to a coprocessor and I as the programmer would be none the wiser since all I cared about was the end result.