PROPOSAL: Make Applicative a superclass of Monad

Sittampalam, Ganesh ganesh.sittampalam at credit-suisse.com
Fri Jun 27 08:42:46 EDT 2008


 
> >  Haskell' is about fixing existing practice, if it did go in, you 
> > would  need some mechanism (i.e. class aliases) to ensure that it 
> > didn't  break code.

> ... which is why we need class aliases!!

> I want to see this change, *and* I want to see class aliases. :-)

I want class aliases, and I want to see this change but *only if* we get
class aliases. Functor =/=> Monad is annoying enough, we shouldn't make
it worse without fixing the underlying limitation first.

Ganesh

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