CoffeeScript comprehensions are broken
An examination of List Comprehensions in several languages, how Coffeescript's ‘comprehension’ semantics differ from the common case, and limitations that arise.
All articles about Monads
2011
Parsers generating parsers
Following my introduction to fnparse, this article looks at how more common functional programming tools can be leveraged to make parsers that output new parsers.
Start parsing in Clojure: fnparse
Parser combinators are a powerful way of expressing complex parsers as first class operations in a language with first class functions. This tutorial introduces one such library, fnparse, for Clojure.
Error monads revisited
An error monad in Clojure
2010
Monads: redux
Thoughts on the appropriateness of monads in Clojure.
Ghosts in the machine
Following on from looking at state monads in the context of Clojure, this article looks at variations that add different forms of state-m of non-determinism.
Welcome to the machine
A close look at how the state monad is implemented and used in Clojure.