I'll be honest, i have no idea what any of the stuff written on that page means. Can you show me the implementation of that class in pure Scala code?

Here's the implementation: https://github.com/scala/scala/blob/v2.10.3/src/library/scal...

(FYI, many Scaladocs have links back to the code on Github)

Alright, so it really is just a Scala class with some handy shortcuts. Please do note though that the docs you linked do not think it is a monad, just that it's easy to think of it as one.

Edit: In fact, it kinda smells like how Perl works when you do this:

    no warnings 'undefined';

> Please do note though that the docs you linked do not think it is a monad, just that it's easy to think of it as one.

Heh?