[Haskell-cafe] What do you call Applicative Functor Morphism?

[Conal Elliott]

I like "C morphism" in general, where "C" is the class name, so I use
"Applicative morphism" or "applicative functor morphism" (as in
http://conal.net/papers/type-class-morphisms/).

  - Conal

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:49 PM, <roconnor at theorem.ca> wrote:

> An applicative functor morphism is a polymorphic function,
> eta : forall a. A1 a -> A2 a between two applicative functors A1 and A2
> that preserve pure and <*>:
>
> eta (pure c) = pure c
> eta (f <*> x) = eta f <*> eta x
>
> What do you guys call such a thing?  My leading candidate is "idomatic
> transformation".
>
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