[Haskell-cafe] Arrows: definition of pure & arr

[Peter Verswyvelen]

I don't get why the name isn't "arrow" instead of "arr"... Arr reminds 
me of pirates, "arrrrrrrhh" ;-)
I guess "first" was chosen because "fst" was already taken, but then it 
would be logical to choose "arrow" instead of "arr" ;-)


Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:00:43AM -0800, Jonathan Cast wrote:
>   
>>             arr = pure
>>             pure = arr
>> [...]
>> This example is admittedly kind of silly, but I'm sure someone has a
>> passionate attachment to one or both names, so requiring definitions
>> to use one or the other would be controversial.
>>     
>
> Perhaps not.  I used the name pure for arr in the Fun of Programming
> paper, because Richard Bird preferred that name, but it hasn't caught on,
> and now the same name is used in the Applicative class.  So perhaps it
> should be removed from Arrow.
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