[Haskell-cafe] Partial instance of a class

[MarLinn]

> In fact Unpickler is a Monad (isomorphic to an EitherT of a State) so "PU' a"
> is an Applicative and PU is what I call a "product profunctor".
>
>      https://hackage.haskell.org/package/product-profunctors
>
> This little augumentation in the definition of PU gets you a whole host of
> free functionality from the libaries for profunctors, applicatives and
> product profunctors.
>
> (By the way, this observation is completely different from the "compiling
> languages for different targets" technique that I mentioned in the previous
> post.)
>

I did see that I could turn PU into a profunctor, but not that that 
would make it an Applicative. Huh. Thanks for the tip!
(I may have been distracted by looking for an arr to turn that 
profunctor into an arrow though.)

It seems that while the particular observation is quite different, the 
more general approach is similar. Which nicely brings us back to the 
original question: If something "almost" fits a class, there's probably 
a better one around the corner. One might just be blind right now.

Cheers,
MarLinn