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Re:Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures by gclaramunt on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @10:02PM (#9889306)
What's wrong with 'bind' ?
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Re:Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures by skybrian on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @11:54PM (#9889617)
What's being bound?

Perhaps "then" would work. JavaScript promises use it to good effect, and they're a monad.

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Re:Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures by VladimirGolovin on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @06:43AM (#9890619)
Smaller computations are being bound into a larger computation, where the monad provides the the code that is executed 'between the lines'.

(BTW, my own take on renaming a monad into something less scary is daisychain, or, slightly more to-the-point, chainable.)

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Re:Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures by tel on Friday July 17, 2015 @09:00AM (#9902485) 

    (>>=) :: M a -> (a -> M b) -> M b
The `a` is bound in the second argument.
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