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Re:Inventing Monads by marcosdumay on Saturday August 29, 2020 @09:05PM (#24320528)
> a different error handling scheme

Monads aren't about handling error. That's just one of two examples on the article (and yes, that one is on the standard library) and it's used for more stuff than errors already.

> You want to create a standard.

Monads are a standard. That's basically all they have into them. If you do it right, most of your monadic code won't even know what monad it's running in.

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