If you're familiar with the psychological phenomenon known as priming, that may help help to explain the situation.

If you're familiar with the psychological phenomenon known as priming, that may help help to explain the situation. For someone who's suffered through a few too many many blog posts that explain monads poorly, it is possible that simply mentioning the m-word, even in the very last sentence of the article, may inhibit their ability to comprehend the process. Because of that, there's a certain genius to the article's approach: Give folks who've been struggling with monads and arrows the best possible chance to grasp the concept without being encumbered by all the baggage that has built up around the terminology. If they do get the concept, great, and they're virtually guaranteed to realize shortly afterward, "Oh hey, forehead smack, those are monads!" (Incidentally, for people who've found themselves thrust into this unfortunate situation, a chapter titled A Fistful of Monads probably isn't likely to help much.) To that end, I'd even go so far as to say your worries about that last bullet point underestimate the audience's ability to understand new concepts when properly explained much worse than the author did.

Posted by bunderbunder on Jun 13, 2014, 2:28 PM

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