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		Raphael on May 22, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Snap: A Haskell Web Framework jQuery is a monad. It's a giant scope that contains information and subroutines.

SamReidHughes on May 22, 2010 [–]

Everything is a monad.

igorgue on May 22, 2010 | [–]

wait what? I'm confused :(

jaspervdj on May 22, 2010 | | [–]

He was just fooling, I think. There are many examples of algebraic structures that are definitely not monads.

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