Add foldMapM to Data.Foldable

Andrew Martin andrew.thaddeus at gmail.com
Wed Dec 6 14:28:37 UTC 2017


Several coworkers and myself have independently reinvented this function
several times:

    foldMapM :: (Foldable g, Monoid b, Monad m) => (a -> m b) -> g a -> m b
    foldMapM f xs = foldlM (\b a -> mappend b <$> (f a)) mempty xs

I would like to propose that this be added to Data.Foldable. We have the
triplet foldr,foldl,foldMap in the Foldable typeclass itself, and
Data.Foldable provides foldrM and foldlM. It would be nice to provide
foldMapM for symmetry and because it seems to be useful in a variety of
applications.

-- 
-Andrew Thaddeus Martin
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