The FunctorM library

[Josef Svenningsson]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:49:43 -0000, Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Does anyone else have any comments on the suggestions from Iavor and Thomas in this thread?  I'm happy to make changes, but only if there's a concensus.  The proposals so far seems to be
> 
>   1) add dist method
>   2a) make Functor a superclass of FunctorM
>   2b) make Functor a *sub*class of FunctorM
>   2c) make Functor a subclass of Monad
>   2d) make Functor a superclass of Monad
>   3) rename FunctorM class to ForEach
>   4) rename FunctorM module to Control.Monad.FunctorM(?)
> 
> (1) is easy and not controversial (but is 'dist' the best name?).
> 
> AFAICT, 2a, 2b, 2c, and 2d have all been suggested (eg. the quoted message above suggests 2a, 2b and 2c).  Perhaps some of the suggestions were typos, but at this point I'm a bit confused!
> 
I think 2c) and 2d) are no go since they violate the Haskell Report.
Apart from that I support 1).

Just my 2 öre.

/Josef