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Monads are just Monoids
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> A Monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?
The real sentence was:
> 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.