Comments | mvanier: Haskell state monads, part 2

mvanier

Haskell state monads, part 2

Jan 22, 2008 21:46

In my previous post, I described in general terms how state transformations are represented in functional languages like Haskell that don't have the concept of mutable state (assignment to variables). There are different ways to do this, but the way that most closely simulates the way things work in imperative languages is by using state monads. ( Read more... )

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flipzagging February 19 2008, 08:30:27 UTC

Hey there. Just so you know, I'm enjoying your posts, and look forward to part 3.

I blew a gasket a few weeks ago on a particularly bad Haskell tutorial and yours is one of the first Monad tutorials to really make sense to me.

mvanier February 19 2008, 11:18:58 UTC

Thanks. Sorry part 3 has been so long in coming -- life has been pretty hectic lately. Rest assured, it's coming.

arturomcclam October 9 2008, 17:07:31 UTC

Posted by: Peter Rosenbeck | November AM I made the choice a couple of weeks ago to study Ocaml instead of Haskell as my first functional language, and I am really enjoying it.

irvinghaymes October 17 2008, 07:56:26 UTC

Posted by: Peter Rosenbeck | November AM I made the choice a couple of weeks ago to study Ocaml instead of Haskell as my first functional language, and I am really enjoying it.

phoenixblitz August 7 2008, 09:35:02 UTC

Hi just read your post. Finally it all makes sense now ;)

Seriously you have a talent for explaining things logically and at a good pace (which not all book writers have). Maybe write a book about the black-hole of Haskell monadic functional programming? I should think that a book on that is really in demand since usually people get on well with Haskell until the term Monad crops up.

Thanks for taking the time to write these posts.

mvanier August 8 2008, 00:43:30 UTC

Thanks a lot for your kind comments! It's things like this that encourage me to keep writing.

anonymous October 6 2008, 15:04:13 UTC

Excellent writeup. Waiting for part 3 ... which I feel will gel the whole thing together! Thanks for the write-up, certainly clear up a lot of stuff for newbies like me!

Great article! anonymous January 4 2009, 18:56:54 UTC

But where's part 3?

I have also read the Y combinator articles. They are really good.

Great anonymous September 14 2010, 00:58:25 UTC

I Agree, You Are Really Good At Explaining Things, Probably The Best Stuff on The Web About Monads