There is a certain mystique about monads, and even about the word "monad" itself. While one of our goals of this set of chapters is removing the shroud of mystery that is often wrapped around them, it is not difficult to understand how it comes about. Monads are very useful in Haskell, but the concept is often difficult to grasp at first. Since monads have so many applications, people often explain them from a particular point of view, which can derail your efforts towards understanding them in their full glory.

The GHC developers are very happy to announce the availability of the first alpha release in the 9.2.1 series. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available from downloads.haskell.org.  GHC 9.2 will bring a number of exciting features including:    Many changes in the area of records, including the new   RecordDotSyntax and NoFieldSelectors language extensions, as well as Support for DuplicateRecordFields with PatternSynonyms.    Introduction of the new GHC2021 lang...