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From: "(" <paren@disroot.org>
To: <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Struggling to write Dissecting Guix, Part 2
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 07:12:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CQ13296O7II3.PG3SUFZDBPRI@guix-framework> (raw)

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Hello Guix,

I've been struggling to write Part 2 of Dissecting Guix; I'm just not sure where to start to
explain monads.

It's hard for a variety of reasons, those being that:

  - Guile has no type system, so you can't express monads in terms of types
  - Guix doesn't implement very many monads (only state, identity, and store), so it's
    difficult to explain with a simpler monad, as there are no simpler monads
  - Guix doesn't have functors or monoids either, so it's hard to "progressively" explain
    first functors, then monoids, then monads
  - Monads are just difficult in general :P

Any suggestions? :/

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             reply	other threads:[~2023-01-25  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-25  7:12 ( [this message]
2023-01-25  9:58 ` Struggling to write Dissecting Guix, Part 2 zimoun
2023-01-26  6:32   ` (
2023-01-25 15:54 ` Wojtek Kosior via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-01-26  6:33   ` (
2023-01-26 11:17   ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-26 20:03     ` bokr
2023-01-27 11:50       ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-25 19:39 ` david larsson
2023-01-26  6:34   ` (
2023-01-28 18:28     ` david larsson
2023-01-26 20:45 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.

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