[Haskell-cafe] name for monad-like structure?

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Michael Vanier <mvanier42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've stumbled upon a structure that is like a weaker version of a monad,
> one that supports return and >> but not >>=.  Has anyone seen this before,
> and if so, does it have a standard name?
>

 That's similar to Applicative, which supports fmap (via Functor), return
(named pure) and ap (named <*>), and hence >> (named *>).
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