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On 10/24/2010 11:33 AM, oliver@first.in-berlin.de wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 05:52:19AM -0700, Dario Teixeira wrote:
> [...]
>> (Lwt was my first exposure to the monadic style of programming; this
>> caused some head-scratching in the beginning, but after a while it
>> became second nature.  I reckon this experience might be common to
>> other Lwt users).
> [...]
> 
> Can you recommend papers on monadic programming?
> Or how did you mastered it?

I recommend learning it by just doing Lwt programming.  Once you've
learned how to use Lwt, then it is much easier IMO to understand the
wider world of monads.

- Michael