Learning Functional Programming in Go

Mother Teresa Monad

Who are you? Are you a good person or a bad person? What would other people say? How did you become the person you are now?

Ponder those questions for a few minutes.

What is a Monad?

The explanation is like answering the question: How were you raised as a child and what have you become?

In the following diagram, we explore a Monad:

The chain of blue boxes represents moments in the flow of Mother Teresa’s life.

The closed blue boxes represent her private time from birth to death. The open boxes represent events in which she opened herself up to interactions with the world around her.

Let's suppose she was nurtured as a baby ...