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You are suggesting that newcomers to Haskell should not care about what a monad is. I'm pointing out that tutorials like "Learn you a Haskell" are trying to explain monads before even getting to "Hello World".


> [...] trying to explain monads before even getting to "Hello World".

Chapter 9: Input and Output

Chapter 12: A Fistful of Monads

No, that doesn't seem to be the case to me.


Well then, as you already know I agree with you that this is absurd!

> Yet for some reason newcomers (reputedly) want to know what a monad is before trying to use one! I agree with you: they should go ahead and use one and not worry about what it is!




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