Understanding Monads With JavaScript

• Published in 2011
• Added on 2012-01-18

For the past weeks I've been working hard studying monads. I'm still learning Haskell, and to be honest I thought I knew what monads are all about, but when I wanted to write a little Haskell library, just to sharpen up my skills, I realized that while I understood the way monadic bind (>>=) and return work, I had no understanding of where that state comes from. So, most likely I had no understanding at all. As a result of this I thought I rediscover monads myself using JavaScript. The plan was basically the same as that used when I derived the Y Combinator: start from the initial problem (dealing with explicit immutable state in this case), and work my way up to the solution by applying simple code transformations.

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• http://igstan.ro/posts/2011-05-02-understanding-monads-with-javascript.html

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	key = {item10},
	type = {online},
	title = {Understanding Monads With JavaScript},
	author = {Ionuț G. Stan},
	abstract = {For the past weeks I've been working hard studying monads. I'm still learning Haskell, and to be honest I thought I knew what monads are all about, but when I wanted to write a little Haskell library, just to sharpen up my skills, I realized that while I understood the way monadic bind (>>=) and return work, I had no understanding of where that state comes from. So, most likely I had no understanding at all. As a result of this I thought I rediscover monads myself using JavaScript. The plan was basically the same as that used when I derived the Y Combinator: start from the initial problem (dealing with explicit immutable state in this case), and work my way up to the solution by applying simple code transformations.},
	comment = {},
	date_added = {2012-01-18},
	date_published = {2011-04-10},
	urls = {http://igstan.ro/posts/2011-05-02-understanding-monads-with-javascript.html},
	collections = {Basically computer science},
	url = {http://igstan.ro/posts/2011-05-02-understanding-monads-with-javascript.html},
	urldate = {2012-01-18},
	year = 2011
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