[Haskell-cafe] Re: Changing type of 'when'

[Jake McArthur]

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Maurí­cio wrote:
|> ignore m = m >> return ()
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| But isn't exactly that the behavior of (>>)?

~    ignore :: Monad m => m a -> m ()
~    (>>)   :: Monad m => m a -> m b -> m b

It may also be worth noting that ignore can be generalized to Functor:

~    ignore :: Functor f => f a -> f ()
~    ignore x = () <$ x

- - Jake
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