jethrolarson

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   by jethrolarson 9y ago

   I considered that quite a lot while contributing to the repo but it's super easy to go overboard and turn a single definition into many pages of explanation. I feel that this glossary should be just a taste of the concepts in a shallow
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   by jethrolarson 9y ago

   I don't think this is strictly true. Sure there's liftA2 that does that but as a general concept, you can lift things of various kinds into a monad (or other thing like that). For example, `pure`/`return` (`of` in fantasy-lan
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   by jethrolarson 10y ago

   It's hard to capture monad in a paragraph and a couple examples. The utility of chain/flatmap doesn't get too interesting until you apply it to the Option Type or Promises but I didn't want to require readers to come wit
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   by jethrolarson 10y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. I've been trying to direct the definitions to be informal and understandable but many contributions come in with a different voice. Some of the definitions are first draft attempts just to get something in plac
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   by jethrolarson 10y ago

   Some of the words defined like comonad were added merely because they're defined in the fantasy-land spec. It's all still a WIP so contributions or corrections are welcome.