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Re:Reflecting on Haskell in 2016 by greenrd on Monday December 26, 2016 @06:57AM (#13257945)
That looks like more of a combination of existing monads than a truly new monad.

I must admit that I can't remember ever creating my own monad from scratch.

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Re:Reflecting on Haskell in 2016 by dllthomas on Monday December 26, 2016 @12:27PM (#13258962)
> That looks like more of a combination of existing monads than a truly new monad.

Well sure, but if we're going to exclude those then the grandparent's ask is a bit high: either we present something useless and pedagogic, or we present something useful that exists in a library somewhere, or we present something new and useful... that we should then also put in a library somewhere!

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