This is the explanation of Monads that made it click for me. I actually had déja vu because I had written code very much like this before in Haskell. It got ug

This is the explanation of Monads that made it click for me. I actually had déja vu because I had written code very much like this before in Haskell. It got ugly real quick, and I remember thinking 'there has to be a better way of doing this'. Turns out I was right.