[Haskell-cafe] Monoid wants a (++) equivalent

Jason Dusek jason.dusek at gmail.com
Sat Jul 4 01:17:31 EDT 2009


2009/07/03 George Pollard <porges at porg.es>:
> This discussion points to a wider issue: at some stage we
> should look at pulling all the nice "new" stuff into Haskell
> prelude. I'm looking at you, Data.Foldable,Traversable.
>
> Also, throw out `map`. ;)

  What is the proper name for the operation on functions of a
  functor, anyway? The name `fmap` seems to driven by an analogy
  with `map`.

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Jason Dusek


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