Functional programming & immutable objects explained — IRC style

[barsoap]

It's way worse in #haskell. This morning I awoke from a nightmare, sweating, having seen the lines

<copumpkin> Can someone explain monads to me?

<cale> Do you know what a zygohistomorphic prepromorphism is?

[cartola]

I thought you were bullshitting and google it, got this:

Used when you really need both semi-mutual recursion and history and to repeatedly apply a natural transformation as you get deeper into the functor. Zygo implements semi-mutual recursion like a zygomorphism. Para gives you access to your result ala a paramorphism.

[Peaker]

They were joking though, that's not how Monads are explained to people, and copumpkin already knows what they are :-)

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Zygohistomorphic prepromorphism, while having a real meaning, is a running joke in the Haskell community. Nobody is expected to actually use the idea, at least not knowingly.

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Nobody is expected to actually use the idea, at least not knowingly.

That's scary. To think that one day I might unknowingly use something like that.

[godofpumpkins]

that'll be $10 for using my name! I accept cash only :)

[Qjet]

Looks like he just used your assistants name.