<div dir="auto">The problem is that we'd then lose the perfectly good Traversable instance, which would be sad.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 2, 2017 11:23 AM, "Andreas Abel" <<a href="mailto:andreas.abel@ifi.lmu.de">andreas.abel@ifi.lmu.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Today a student came to me wondering why a certain function produced a regular result, where he had expected an error. Turned out he had used `concat`, but not on a lists of lists as he had thought, but on a lists of `Either a [b]`.<br>
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With the Foldable instance for Either, which considers Either a b to be a container of 0-1 elements of b, errors are happily swallowed.<br>
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I think this instance is harmful and should be deprecated (and later removed) from base.<br>
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There are similarly pointless Foldable instances as well.<br>
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See a discussion one year ago, which was heated, but had no consequences.<br>
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