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		mypalmike on July 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Functional programming jargon in plain English I think you need to explain endofunctors. An endofunctor is the category containing monoids such as the monad.* *This is probably wrong. Please don't explain.

eddyschai on July 6, 2022 [–]

So in all seriousness a functor is a mapping from one category to another, and an endofunctor is a mapping from one category to the same category.

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