And similarly, the list [1,2,3,4] is not a monad, and that's why "flatmappable" isn't a sensible alternative to "monad", as Bracha recently suggested. Though s

And similarly, the list [1,2,3,4] is not a monad, and that's why "flatmappable" isn't a sensible alternative to "monad", as Bracha recently suggested. Though some have argued that this confusion indicates a hole in our vocabulary: http://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/monad-terminology.html http://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/monad-terminology.html