A better type signature for `forM_`
John Wiegley
johnw at newartisans.com
Fri Apr 1 03:46:32 UTC 2016
>>>>> Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs at mega-nerd.com> writes:
> As pointed out to me on IRC (thanks pjdeport), chaning the type signature of
> `forM_` to
> forM_' :: (Monad m, Foldable t) => t a -> (a -> m ()) -> m ()
> would have resulted in an error.
What about mapM_, replicateM_, etc.? In each case, '_' means "if you return a
value from your action, it is ignored", and not "you must return unit".
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