Thanks for reading that paper by Wadler. In the past I was very intimidated by papers such as this, but I've found they are one of the best ways to learn. If y

Thanks for reading that paper by Wadler. In the past I was very intimidated by papers such as this, but I've found they are one of the best ways to learn. If you go back far enough to when Haskell (or any language) was created you'll usually encounter simpler and simpler ideas and less abstraction. Kinda-sorta implementing Monads through pattern matching in that paper helped me really get quite a few things.