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A Neighborhood of Infinity: Monads, A Field Guide

The document summarizes a blog post from 2006 titled "Monads, a Field Guide". The blog post includes sketches of different monads with brief descriptions and aims to provide a visual guide to monads. It notes the author is still working on sketches for continuation monads and invites comments.

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A Neighborhood of Infinity: Monads, A Field Guide

The document summarizes a blog post from 2006 titled "Monads, a Field Guide". The blog post includes sketches of different monads with brief descriptions and aims to provide a visual guide to monads. It notes the author is still working on sketches for continuation monads and invites comments.

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Monads,aFieldGuide

Here are some sketches of monads. I've annotated each with its species. I'm not a great artist and I
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only saw each of them for a fleeting moment so I had to fill in some details from memory. But I think the sketches are good enough to be able to recognise them in the wild. Click on the 'thumbnail' for the full size image. I'm currently trying to stalk some monads from the continuation family. When I succeed I'll add some sketches of those too. Posted by Dan Piponi at Saturday, October 21, 2006 Labels: haskell

3comments: Porgessaid... This is really good, I keep coming back to it. Any progress on the others? :) Saturday, 19 May, 2007 Porgesaid... Also, as just occurred to me whllst reading something completely different, either of the two middle ones could be a recursive-descent parser. I'm not sure of the exact details though :) Sunday, 17 June, 2007 RaoulDukesaid... hey, this is a very interesting idea. i think more visually, usually, so i appreciate such things a lot :-) thanks for taking the time to post them. it would be super nifty if some group of folks could work on a coffee table book that was A Visual Explanation of Programming. think we could find a publisher who'd give us an advance?! Friday, 07 November, 2008 Post a Comment
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