A monad is a mechanism for injecting orthogonal semantics into a chain of functions; without the functions knowing it. Why a chain? One reason is that a chain of functions is time ordered. It forces the ordering of operations.
*sigh* wrong again, not even close. When is a good time for you to learn this subject?
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If you can fit it into a tweet, then probably anytime... But is it possible to do it and be accurate enough, while still being understandable to your average non-FP programmer?
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I have done it thousands of times already for over 20 years. This is not mystical, inaccessible knowledge.
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