Comments on: A monad tutorial for Clojure programmers (part 1)

By: Jacek Laskowski

Jacek Laskowski — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:26:21 +0000

Yes. For more advanced explanation see khinsen’s answer.

By: bind, unit, and all that | Halfbaked Ideas

bind, unit, and all that | Halfbaked Ideas — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:37:22 +0000

[...] Haskell. But the Clojure community is fortunate to have some very good monad tutorials. Check out Konrad Hinsen’s and Jim Duey’s [...]

By: RosenK

RosenK — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:19:25 +0000

Thank you for the Python tutorial. It is the best monad introduction I came across so far.

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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:55:02 +0000

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By: Good Monad Tutorials « My Year of Learning Functional Programming With Haskell

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:42:58 +0000

[...] Good Monad Tutorials By gongli2000 These two tutorials on monads are pretty good. Tutorial 1 Tutorial 2 [...]

By: Monads in Clojure: Monadic Tree Labelling with the State monad | Tim Martin's blog

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:59:47 +0000

[...] are way too many tutorials on monads on the web, though not many that are specific to Clojure (Konrad Hinsen’s tutorial being an obvious exception.) The argument as I’ve seen it described is that too many people [...]

By: Ron Lusk

Ron Lusk — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:43:02 +0000

Perhaps “… but it permits one to write…” or “…it permits the programmer…” or even “…it permits you…”. At worst, “it permits the value to appear before the function that is applied to it.”

By: khinsen

khinsen — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:04:28 +0000

Jim Duey has published another monad tutorial for Clojure, which takes quite a different approach. Check it out at http://intensivesystems.net/tutorials/monads_101.html

By: A monad tutorial for Clojure programmers (part 3) « On Clojure

A monad tutorial for Clojure programmers (part 3) « On Clojure — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:10:51 +0000

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By: khinsen

khinsen — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:22:02 +0000

I did a quick search and noted that the probability monad is indeed the one implemented in clojure.contrib.probabilities.dist. But I believe that it is much simpler than some of those discussions make it seem. I’ll put it on my to-do list for part 3 or 4 of the tutorial!