List is a Monad: Understanding Map, flatMap, and Maybe in Practice

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Monads are more than just containers, and there isn’t the-one-and-only monad.
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Monads are more than just containers, and there isn’t the-one-and-only monad. Monads usually involve generic types, but they require specific operations (`Unit' and 'flatMap')