Monads definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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This was the assumption of the great German philosopher, Leibnitz, who carried the panspermic theory so far as to accept the more fanciful one of "monads"--those invisible, ideal, and purely speculative units of Plato, which go to make up the entire universe, extending even to the ultimate elements, or elements of elements.

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The map function for monads is actually named fmap, and you can find it in the Functor — Random Hacks
And they are related to monads, at least according to Edmund Robinsonâ€ ™ s — Random Hacks
Basically, monads are a clever bit of category theory that can be used to structure control flow in a program. — Random Hacks
The "map" function used in monads is a generalization of the regular "map". — Random Hacks
The purpose of this technical report is to give a category theoretic introduction to monads, and to explore the relationship to what functional programmers term a monad. — CiteULike: Everyone's library