From 5c38807ea1ba6dcaf9abcfc004918e1b2d503def Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jim Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:03:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] ambiguous "identify" --- topics/week7_introducing_monads.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/topics/week7_introducing_monads.mdwn b/topics/week7_introducing_monads.mdwn index 3b92b61b..23f4ff6b 100644 --- a/topics/week7_introducing_monads.mdwn +++ b/topics/week7_introducing_monads.mdwn @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Contrast that to `m$` (`mapply`, which operates not on two *box-producing functi mapply js xs ==> [49, 25, 14, 10] -As we illustrated in class, there are clear patterns shared between lists and option types and trees, so perhaps you can see why people want to identify the general structures. But it probably isn't obvious yet why it would be useful to do so. To a large extent, this will only emerge over the next few classes. But we'll begin to demonstrate the usefulness of these patterns by talking through a simple example, that uses the monadic functions of the Option/Maybe box type. +As we illustrated in class, there are clear patterns shared between lists and option types and trees, so perhaps you can see why people want to figure out the general structures. But it probably isn't obvious yet why it would be useful to do so. To a large extent, this will only emerge over the next few classes. But we'll begin to demonstrate the usefulness of these patterns by talking through a simple example, that uses the monadic functions of the Option/Maybe box type. ## Safe division ## -- 2.11.0