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arrow (in computer science)

Idea

A generalization of the concept of monad (in computer science).

References

• John Hughes, section 2 of Generalising Monads to Arrows, Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier) 37 (1-3): 67–111. (2000) (pdf)

A comparison of monads with applicative functors (also known as idioms) and with arrows (in computer science) is in

• Exequiel Rivas?, Relating Idioms, Arrows and Monads from Monoidal Adjunctions, (arXiv:1807.04084)