think of a monad...
Posted on 31 January 2007
Think of a monad as a spacesuite full of nuclear waste in the ocean next to a container of apples. now, you can't put oranges in the space suite or the nucelar waste falls in the ocean, *but* the apples are carried around anyway, and you just take what you need. - Dons
Thought an illustration might be useful:
(Yes, yes, I know I have better things to be doing with my time)