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

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 20.11.2015, 12:02 +0200 schrieb Oleg Grenrus:
> - `Errors` [4], which could be specialised to `Either (NonEmpty err)
> a` and `ap` would gather all errors!

this is actually a pretty nice and convincing example: „A effectful
computation (e.g. a stateless parser) that may fail in various spots
with errors, where the type system can guarantee that _all_ errors will
be reported (and not just the first found).“ 

Obviously a Monad cannot provide this guarantee, and obviously, there
are applications where this is impossible, so this nicely shows the
usefulness of Applicative as a separate abstraction.

Greetings,
Joachim

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