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(Tries to fight the urge to explain, fails) it’s a construct to sequence async interactions, one after the other, without blocking. It’s very similar to c# or python’s await

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I/O is just one thing that can be described with a monad. `Option` with `and_then` as the parent suggested was another example.

Yeah the subject of my sentence was unclear. I was responding to the comment about IO in particular.

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