[Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Applicative => Monad: Call for consensus

[Ketil Malde]

Erik Hesselink <hesselink at gmail.com> writes:

>>> importing Control.Applicative

>> main = print =<< liftM2 (+) readLn (return 3)
>> [...] line noise

> Why not just:
>
> main = print . (+3) =<< readLn

Or using applicative:

  print =<< (+3) <$> readLn

?

(Which separates the printing from the addition.)

-k
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