[Haskell-cafe] Monadic vs "pure" style (was: pros and cons of sta tic typing and side effects)

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Ben Lippmeier wrote:

> I imagine this would be an absolute pain for library writers. Notice that we 
> get Data.Map.map but no Data.Map.mapM - or perhaps there's some magical 
> lifting combinator that I am not aware of?
>

sequence (Data.Map.map (\x -> someAction x) someMap)

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