Monthly Archives: February 2009

Typeclassopedia — a generic response

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Brent

Thanks for all the fantastic feedback on the Typeclassopedia! Please keep it coming! Such an outpouring of helpful comments and suggestions deserves a response, so I just wanted to write a quick note to say that I am reading every … Continue reading →

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The Typeclassopedia — request for feedback

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Brent

I have just submitted a draft article for inclusion in the Monad.Reader entitled “The Typeclassopedia”. I will let the abstract speak for itself: The standard Haskell libraries feature a number of type classes with algebraic or categorical underpinnings. Becoming a … Continue reading →

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a chicken monad

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Brent

Yesterday, Mark Dominus took a picture of me eating a monad: It was a delicious Chicken monad. data Chicken a = Chicken (Egg a) data Egg a = Egg (Chicken a) instance Monad Chicken where …(exercise for the reader)

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