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?