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Vaughan Pratt wrote:
> Patrik Eklund wrote:
>> "Operads" are like sets of operations.
>>
>> A monad is an extension of a functor. If the functor is the term
>> functor,

<snip>...

> endofunctor T: C --> C.
>
> Vaughan Pratt
>
Someone should up date the Wiki

jim