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daxfohl on July 2, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: List is a monad

Nit, in Haskell it's a MonadPlus. Which IIRC is a monad that supports filtering.

ChadNauseam on July 2, 2025 [–]

In Haskell List is a Monad as well as MonadPlus. Since List's Monad instance is used probably 100x more than its MonadPlus instance, I think it makes sense to focus on that,

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