On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net>wrote:
> On 17 Mar 2010, at 20:54, David Nolen wrote: > > But seriously, in my personal opinion Monads are relatively useless in the >> context of Clojure. >> > > I'd say that in any impure functional language, monads are useful in the > context of specific applications or algorithmic approaches. When working > with continuations, or when writing complex parsers, monads are useful. It's > just Haskell that has a language-specific relation to monads, because it > needs them for fundamental tasks such as I/O. James, and Konrad sorry if I sounded overly dismissive of Monads ;) Yes for parsers, continuations, other tricky problems they provide a very elegant solution. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
