Functor, Applicative, Monad, Foldable, Traversable instances for (, , ) a b

[Tony Morris]

Join me in not caring about the names. Again, use the types.

It's triply hilarious that we have a typed programming language, and an
increasingly disproportionate user base who don't know how to use those
types. What is this? Amateur hour? Python exists.


On 02/04/17 18:22, Henrik Nilsson wrote:
> On 04/02/2017 01:56 AM, Tony Morris wrote:
>> length :: f a -> Int
>>
>> We immediately know that values of the kind (* -> *) slot in to the
>> value (f), with a kind checker to ensure we get it correct. Therefore,
>> we can easily reason about the length of values of kind ((,) a)
>>
>> I do find it hilarious that this discussion continued using the term
>> "tuple" as if to make a reasonable point. KIND ERROR.
>
> And it's doubly hilarious that that the above argument is put forward
> without any regard for picking an appropriate name for the concept,
> which most certainly is very different from "length" as used in
> everyday parlance, physics, mathematics, and any CS text-book on
> data-structures and algorithms I've ever seen.
>
> Best,
>
> /Henrik
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