A Monadic Approach to Error Handling in Collection Pipelines

If you read my last blog you know that I’ve been pushing the idea of chained computation rather far. It’s been fun to just try to use it for all of my utility programming to see where it breaks down. When you build a program as a single expression in a single sequential flow, one of the things that you have to deal with is making sure that you have all of the information you need at each stage of the pipeline. If you don’t organize your design well, you’ll be passing along extra arguments tha...