monads are not burritos. they are clearly fajitas
@trysdyn are sandwiches applicative
@typhlosion Do monads mean something other than a function...thing...? (They're /something/ in functional programming languages, but I'm not quite sure what.) :3
@IceWolf a monad is basically just a functional programming thing. they're used to represent operations that might fail or have side effects, which is handy in languages where the usual assumption is that a function call has no side effects and behaves predictably. that's the super high level gloss definition but i think thats a serviceable summary