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Re:Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures by jbooth on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @03:02PM (#9893345)
Yeah, but I can do that without category theory, it's just obvious. I still don't understand what 'monad' offers over 'flatMappable' besides the ability to use 'endofunctor' in the same sentence.
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Re:Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @03:07PM (#9893366)
> I still don't understand what 'monad' offers over 'flatMappable'

Its several characters and syllables shorter, and doesn't appeal to an intuition which is distant from many of the productive uses of construct.

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