[Haskell-cafe] Const vs Constant types
Paterson, Ross
R.Paterson at city.ac.uk
Sat Nov 19 21:52:08 CET 2011
Denis Moskvin writes:
> Is there any rationale for coexistence of
> newtype Const a b = Const { getConst :: a }
> from Control.Applicative and
> newtype Constant a b = Constant { getConstant :: a }
> from Data.Functor.Constant (transformers package)?
It was an accident. I think it would make sense to either move Constant to Control.Applicative or hide Const.
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