In the past, we've had meditaton on coroutines, continuations, haskell, and other functional topics. So I thought I'd throw my recently completed "Monads in Perl" tutorial out there for discussion. There is no real reason to use monads in perl, but hey, TMTOWTDI.

-- All code is 100% tested and functional unless otherwise noted.

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Re: Monads in Perl
by jryan (Vicar) on Aug 31, 2004 at 17:50 UTC
    As you said, "hey, TMTOWTDI." (: 
    print parse_equation("Div Div Con 18 Con 2 Con 3");

# just a sexeger
sub parse_equation {
    my $r = reverse $_[0];
    $r =~ s!(\d+(?:\.\d+)?) noC (\d+(?:\.\d+)?) noC viD!
                reverse($2)/reverse($1) . ' noC'
           !e while $r =~ /viD/;
    return scalar reverse $r;
}

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Re: Monads in Perl
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Sep 01, 2004 at 13:19 UTC

    This is nitpicking an otherwise nice little article (sorry :-) but:

    closures (also know as anonymous subroutines)

    I really wish that people wouldn't use closures and anonymous subroutines as synonyms. Not all closures are anonymous. Not all anonymous subroutines are closures.

    I know people do - but we shouldn't encourage them! It only leads to confusion.

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Re: Monads in Perl
by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Aug 31, 2004 at 22:02 UTC

    Nice tutorial!

    Anyone else interested in joining the PerlMonks Haskell Fanboys Club? :-)

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