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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A monad is a builder that lets you use previous partial results to make decisions while you build.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

that sounds like a regular builder

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

If you regular builders can't be composed as values...

That may be regular, but it doesn't make them good. Some times you need that, and it's ok, but that shouldn't be most times.