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<h2 id="monads-are-just-monoids">Monads are just Monoids</h2>
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<p>A Monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?</p>
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<p>The real sentence was:</p>
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<p>All told, a monad in X is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors of X, with product × replaced by composition of endofunctors and unit set by the identity endofunctor.</p>
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