Concept:
Monad
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A functional programming idiom for computing effects
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The term "monad" originates from category theory, but this illustration focuses on the functional programming view where "monad" refers to a programming idiom for composing computations, specifically computations that may involve side effects or I/O actions. Monads have been popularized by Language:Haskell.
In Haskell, monads are developed and used with the help of the type class Monad which is parametrized by a type constructor for the actual monad. Here is a sketch of the type class:
class Monad m where
return :: a -> m a
(>>=) :: m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
(>>) :: m a -> m b -> m b
-- ... some details omitted
The return function serves the construction of trivial computations, i.e., computations that return values. The >>= (also knows as the bind function) compose a computation with a function that consumes the value of said computation to produce a composed computation. Here are some informal descriptions of popular monads:
- State monad
- return v: return value v and pass on state
- bind c f: apply computation c as state transformer and pass on transformed state to f
- Reader monad
- return v: return value v and ignore environment
- bind c f: pass environment to both c and f
- Writer monad
- return v: return value v and empty output
- bind c f: compose output from both c and f
- Maybe monad
- return v: return "successful" value v
- bind c f: fail if c fails, otherwise, pass on successful result to f
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