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On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016, at 19:40, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Not to mention "Monad". I don't think *anyone* knows what a Monad is ;-)
>
> A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors; what's the
> problem?
>
> Well, someone had to say it.

A monad is what you get in front of every Twitch stream. A polyad is
what you get on dodgy torrent sites. Of course, only functional
languages have them; nonfunctional languages use adblockers.

ChrisA