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Monads are a construct from category theory, and one with a particularly significant use in idiomatic Haskell, so I'd expect learning Monads as used in Haskell to generally precede a broad understanding of category theory for most Haskell programmers.



Thanks, good to know. I should clarify that I was genuinely asking a question and not making a statement.




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