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Octoth0rpetoday at 2:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

wow, that caused me quite a bit of confusion

> Haskell Free Library

Has zero to do with haskell the language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera...


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_verandaguytoday at 2:14 PM

Believe it or not, the library predates the understanding of monads as a mathematical concept! Though it can be argued it is an example of a functor (the library is mapped over two countries).

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