[Haskell-beginners] Type classes and synonyms

[Felipe Lessa]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 05:43:29PM -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> why has no one mentioned: you most likely don't need to understand
> Arrows?  I'm pretty good with Haskell, and Arrows are still somewhat
> confusing to me.  Why?  Most problems I've worked with in Haskell
> have had more-idiomatic solutions than Arrows.  (examples include:
> Monad; Functor; Applicative; just plain functions; plain old lack of
> type-class abstraction.)  It's not so easy or useful to understand
> any abstraction/class without using at least two or three useful
> examples/instances of it first.

In defence of my solution, I haven't really used the power of the
arrows.  The "problem" is that the quite useful functions first,
second, (***) and (&&&) are defined within Control.Arrow.

Cheers, :)

--
Felipe.