[Haskell-cafe] How to spot Monads, Applicatives ...

[William Yager]

>  If it makes sense to apply a "Foo of functions" to a value,

That's just a functor. "fmap ($ value) foos".

But yes, if you want to do this with more than one foo (or functions inside
a foo), then you need applicative.

e.g.

(+) <$> [1,2,3] <*> [10,20,30]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:29 AM, John Wiegley <johnw at newartisans.com>
wrote:

> >>>>> martin  <martin.drautzburg at web.de> writes:
>
> > I am at a stage, where I can use some of the Monads and Applicatives
> which
> > are out there. But I hardly ever wrote my own instances. I am curious to
> > learn about the thought processes which lead to the insight "hey that
> can be
> > written nicely as an Applicative Functor"
>
> When I realize Monad might be useful:
>
>   If it makes sense for a "Foo of Foos" (over some type) to be reduced to a
>   Foo.
>
> When I realize Applicative might be useful:
>
>   If it makes sense to apply a "Foo of functions" to a value, or a function
>   taking two or more arguments to two or more Foos, throughout those Foos.
>
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