[Haskell-cafe] automatically deriving Map and Filter on datatypes etc.

[Jonathan Cast]

On 5 Jun 2008, at 1:39 AM, Thomas Davie wrote:

> Even deriving an instance of Functor seems rather implausable, what  
> should it do for
>
> data Wierd a b = Nil | A a (Wierd a b) | B b (Wierd a b)
>
> Should fmap's function argument operate on 'a's, 'b's, or both?

class Functor (f :: * -> *) where ...

so, 'b's.

jcc

PS Why isn't Functor derivable?