Python-based monads essay (Re: Assignment versus binding)

[Gregory Ewing]

Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> This suggests even the promoters of functional programming intuitively
> prefer imperative programming, but that's ok as long as it's all
> functional under the hood.

You make it sound like functional programmers like functional
programming because it gives them a warm fuzzy feeling. I don't
think that's true -- there are specific reasons they like
it, and those reason still apply when I/O is expressed using
a monadic structure.

Read Part 2 - I have something to say about that at the end.

-- 
Greg