[mcbrit]

No one who cooks, cooks like this. So, no, a burrito is not a monad, unless you are performing Catholic Mass and the burrito is sth sth, in which case you have more words to write and I while I believe you can write those words, the words are not interesting. That it why I am saying your analogy is not interesting, and I think you were just attracted to burritos because they can hold.. anything? Even though that's not the path you went down?

[sophacles]

Have you ever been to a burrito stand? Maybe a Chipotle restaurant? Literally the person assembling a burrito starts with tortilla and they add your meat and ingredients to it. The ingredients come from an array of pans at the counter (aka an enum of choices), and you (the consumer of said burrito) tell the maker what you want a series of "add this" type statements.

I get that cooking is necessary to prepare the ingredients, but once the ingredients are all individually prepared, the cooking is irrelevant to making them into burritos.

[mcbrit]

Chipotle ensures all paths lead to a customer-pleasing Burrito, which is kind of sort of the same Burrito once you squint in the way Chipotle slants. Choose away; it does not matter very much. I would say cooking/Cooking is finding interesting variations of a Burrito. So while Chipotle may be explained as turning a Burrito into a Monad, a Burrito, and cooking a Burrito, is ideally not a Monad.