Superposition & Indetermination

Or: The List Monad

Last year, I introduced monads under a more “intuitive” light—focus was placed on the semantics of monads rather than formal definitions, turning to the Maybe monad as a first contact. The following assumes the reading of said article.

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Functors & Monads: An Introduction

Following some in-person chats on a number of concepts of functional programming, my team pushed me to try to share and present some of these to a wider audience. Admittedly, finding online resources on FP that are both palatable and reasonably sized is not always easy. This article was written in December 2015 and was my best attempt—in my own perspective and with my own analogies—to talk about what lies beyond the obscure term monad by starting with functors.

Functors

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