@bitemyapp monads allow you to run some computation sure that (certain) non-local effects are encapsulated. Is that wrong?
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@bitemyapp it's wrong because it's not *all* monads can do, or because it's not what monads sometimes do?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@bitemyapp but does it describe what Monad is often useful for?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@wycats and even then, it's a pretty bad explanation of, say, Maybe.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@wycats Maybe itself deals with the concept of Nothingness, Monad is just a convenient interface over the data structure.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@bitemyapp It's a possibly-nothing that is part of the type interface of your functions, instead of an implicit global protocol.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@bitemyapp it's in the interfaces of the functions that *take and return* the Maybe
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