Monads compared to InputRanges?

[Timon Gehr]

On 12/04/2013 12:02 AM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
>
> I get the gist of that, but it seems like the range concept with UFCS
> provides the same thing? E.G.  range.map().flatten().map()?
>

Well, informally speaking, this is roughly an instance of a Monad.

> Does it really not accomplish the same thing -- am I missing some key
> point of monads?

The quick answer is that they are more general and would also capture 
eg. rooted trees with map and flatten operations, not just linear sequences.