[Haskell-cafe] Data.Tree.Zipper in the standard libraries

[Luke Palmer]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Jules Bean <jules at jellybean.co.uk> wrote:
> Krasimir Angelov wrote:
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>> The monads design is used in Data.Map i.e.
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>> lookup :: (Monad m, Ord k) => k -> Map k a -> m a
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> which is widely considered a poor design decision and a wart on Data.Map.

It is?  Can you point to somewhere explaining that?  I rather liked that idiom.

Luke