Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Think of a monad...

2007-02-01 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Frederick, Thursday, February 1, 2007, 6:11:32 PM, you wrote: > And we have reached the monadic equivalent of Schrodinger's cat. yes, it's exact reason why we love monads - the appropriate fruits in container are appeared depending on environment where it's used. you send probabilistic con

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Think of a monad...

2007-02-01 Thread Dan Mead
so are monads whats holding the nuclear waste or whats holding the apples? ;) On 2/1/07, Frederick Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And we have reached the monadic equivalent of Schrodinger's cat. On 1/31/07, Eric Y. Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Haskellers, > > In the recent HWN, I no

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Think of a monad...

2007-02-01 Thread Frederick Ross
And we have reached the monadic equivalent of Schrodinger's cat. On 1/31/07, Eric Y. Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Haskellers, In the recent HWN, I noticed a new monad metaphor by Don Stewart: Think of a monad as a spacesuite full of nuclear waste in the ocean next to a container of a

[Haskell-cafe] Think of a monad...

2007-01-31 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Dear Haskellers, In the recent HWN, I noticed a new monad metaphor by Don Stewart: Think of a monad as a spacesuite full of nuclear waste in the ocean next to a container of apples. now, you can't put oranges in the space suite or the nucelar waste falls in the ocean, *but* the apples are ca