They're called computation expressions in F# and not monads because they're not exclusively used to implement monads. The term is more generalised to capture t

They're called computation expressions in F# and not monads because they're not exclusively used to implement monads. The term is more generalised to capture the much larger scope of the feature. Here's a breakdown of the difference: http://tomasp.net/blog/2013/computation-zoo-padl/index.html http://tomasp.net/blog/2013/computation-zoo-padl/index.html