Jeremy FitzhardingeFound a monad
Jon Gilbert@jsgf
toilet paper roll
condom
ketchup packet
COVID test
Hypodermic needle
Hot chip
Philly cheese steak
Drinking straw
N95 mask
@jgilbert Spaceship
@jsgf spaceship
Sisteryatima@Sisteryatima @jsgf they're like that game @yoz plays on his birthday every year with the rules that no one understands
Yoz@Sisteryatima @jgilbert They're like a toilet roll.
Ziggy the Hamster ☎️ 4ZTHThe easiest one to understand is Option. This is Option<TP>. Until you remove the wrapper, you don’t know if it’s Some<TP> or None.
Other languages/libraries have Left/Right, and Rust has Result. There’s other things I’m sure but I am not a math nerd so don’t know the specifics about what qualifies. (Is Box<Foo> a Monad in Rust?)
@ZiggyTheHamster @Sisteryatima @jgilbert No, it's a Mexican dish consisting of a tortilla wrapping a filling, typically consisting of rice, beans and shredded meats.
Odd-Egil Auran
Steve Purcell@jsgf That's just a monoid in the category of wiping-your-endofunctors.