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When I read about Monads, it looks like to me like generic Rust struct with a generic trait and a (more complex) result as a return value. I have no idea if this is what a Monad basically is or not. For context, I never learned Haskell properly (just tried hello world and read a few topics).
You should think of
Monadas basically giving you a way to provide your own implementation of the semicolon operator so that you can dictate what it means to sequence computations of a given type.I think the mistake I do (and many others) is trying to compare existing mechanisms from other languages, without the full picture around that mechanic. Every time I think to understand what a Monad is, its wrong. :D Guess I have to dive deeper to understand what that actually means, not just as an explanation. Just out of curiosity.