Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures

Re:Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures by nandemo on Sunday May 19, 2013 @10:03AM (#5732863)

That approach is used at length in Real World Haskell. For example, some code for key-value lookup is shown that deals with a series of Maybe foo values, first with a cascade of guards (think a cascade of if-else's), and later with monad syntax. There are other examples.

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/programming-with-monad...

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Re:Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures by lobster_johnson on Sunday May 19, 2013 @09:05PM (#5735231)

I enjoyed RWH much more after having learned a lot of the basics. It starts off simple, to be sure, but then quickly jumps into the deep end. For a book that's about real-world stuff it gets into a lot of unnecessary detail, too, that should have been deferred until later "advanced" chapters. I appreciated the hands-on approach to real examples, though.

"Learn You A Haskell For Great Good" [1], while much less complete, is the best intro I have found so far. It's also free.

[1] http://learnyouahaskell.com/

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