On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:
> My inquiry proved beyond any doubt that my students are so
> conditioned by "C", that despite the fact that we worked with
> monads for several weeks, they *cannot imagine* that
> "return z"
> may mean something different than the value of "z".
>
> Any suggestions?
Perhaps the name "return" in the monadic definitions
could be replaced by something more suggestive of
an action? How about running a little experiment
next time, with a new name, to see whether this would
remove this unfortunate association with C-like
"return" in the minds of your students?
Jan
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