[Haskell-beginners] Constructors as functions (was monad transformers)

[Michael P Mossey]

Michael P Mossey wrote:
> In Martin Grabmuller's tutorial "Monad Transformers Step by Step", found 
> here
> 
> http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~magr/pub/Transformers.pdf
> 

Additional question: in this paper he uses a data constructor in an interesting 
way: back-quoting it to make it an operator. I thought, "Huh, a constructor is a 
lot like a function?" I did some experiments and found that I can map a 
constructor over a list and I can compose a constructor with other functions. 
Cool. So is a constructor a function, in every sense?

Thanks,
Mike