>>38While it's not wrong, people often refer to monads saying things like "the State Monad" or "the IO Monad." However given the situation, those people use the word incorrectly as if monads were nouns. They're really more adjectives, so those people should refer to State and IO as "Monadic."
This imperative block of code is monadic.
These combination of list functions are monadic.
etc.
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Monads are a formal way of describing a context. It's an analogous word for 'contextual.' It's not the actual context.
While many things do have monadic properties, it's not necessary to acknowledge it.