Tikhon Jelvis personal blog
Haskell, Monads and Purity
I believe the notion that Haskell uses “monads” to enforce purity is rather misleading. It has certainly caused quite a bit of confusion! It’s very much like saying we use “rings to do arithmetic”. We don’t! We use numbers, which just happen to form a ring with arithmetic operations. The important idea is the number …
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2014 | Haskell, Monads and Purity by akerl_ | 141 | 123 |
