# HG changeset patch # User HackBot # Date 1357951822 0 # Node ID d67f00ed852a97006ad8172e4c0c8ece81bf629d # Parent 4971da37cff4874c831701ccda155fa7329236c1 ? monad >> wisdom/monad_analogies diff -r 4971da37cff4 -r d67f00ed852a wisdom/monad_analogies --- a/wisdom/monad_analogies Sat Jan 12 00:47:43 2013 +0000 +++ b/wisdom/monad_analogies Sat Jan 12 00:50:22 2013 +0000 @@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ Monads are like burritos. Think of a monad as a spacesuite full of nuclear waste in the ocean next to a container of apples. now, you can't put oranges in the space suite or the nucelar waste falls in the ocean, but the apples are carried around anyway, and you just take what you need. All space stations must put their astronauts into space suits before sending them out. +Monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors.