[Haskell-cafe] AMP - how do you motivate this in teaching?

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

thanks for your mail! I am circulating it to my Haskell teaching
colleagues, who are facing the same challenges as Johannes.

Am Donnerstag, den 19.11.2015, 21:00 -0430 schrieb Manuel Gómez:
> The three classes are distinguished by their expanding
> APIs, and it’s helpful, if you have enough time for the lesson, to
> show types that are Functor but not Applicative (e.g. «(,) e»).

There is the instance
    Monoid a => Applicative ((,) a)
Do you touch upon that, or pretend it is not there?

Greetings,
Joachim

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