[Haskell-beginners] <$> and <*> pronunciation

[Bob Ippolito]

Not a stupid question at all!

<$> is fmap (literally it is just an operator version of Functor's fmap)
<*> is ap (although ap may still be specialized to Monad rather than
Applicative, it is the same operation)

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Max Schneider <maxwell.j.schneider at gmail.com
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> (I really hope 'no stupid questions' holds here)
> I'm not even going to try framing this into a weighty or practical
> question; how do you pronounce the <$> and <*> Applicative functions?
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