[Haskell-cafe] Re: How to "Show" an Operation?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jun 10, 2010, at 17:38 , Martin Drautzburg wrote:
>> instance Applicative Named where
>>    pure x = Named "" x
>>    (Named s f) <*> (Named t v) = Named (s ++ "(" ++ t ++ ")") (f v)
>
> Applicative. Need to study that

The above is just the Functor, rephrased in Applicative style.  <*> is  
exactly fmap.  Likewise, Monad has a function "liftM" which is exactly  
fmap.  (For historical reasons, these are not related the way they  
should be:  all Monads should be Applicatives, all Applicatives should  
be Functors, and all Functors should be instances of an even more  
primitive class Pointed.)

> According to Hoogle permutations should be in Data.List. Mine (GHCI  
> 6.8.2)
> does not seem to have it. Seems to have something to do with "base",  
> whatever
> that is.

Things have gradually been moving out of base; you probably need to  
install "containers" from Hackage.

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