[Haskell-cafe] Pulling an applicative/apply out of a record

[Tom Ellis]

On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 02:25:41AM -0500, Tyson Whitehead wrote:
> RecordF (f Type1) (f Type2) ... -> (f Type1, f Type2, ....)
> -> f (Type1, Type2, ...) -> f (Record Type1 Type2 ...)
> 
> I can't seem to find any uncurried zip implementations for arbitrarily
> large tuples (or any other way to do this without writing the
> boilerplate).  Am I missing something?  Is there a better way to do this?

I would call this a multi-typed 'Data.Traversable.sequence'.

Data.Profunctor.Product.TH generates this (in fact something slightly more
general that works for ProductProfunctors, not just Applicatives).

Currently it only works for fully polymorphic record types, but we could
tweak it so it so it's a bit more general.

Tom