Proposal: reduce base from the top

Jeffrey Yasskin jyasskin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 20:29:23 EDT 2007


On 4/5/07, Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org> wrote:
> Agreed, and I think Foldable and Traversable too.

Anything that's Foldable or Traversable is kind of inherently a
collection, so I'd support putting them in the collections package. Or
do you know of potential instances that aren't collections?

> Also, Monad should one
> day be a subclass of Applicative, IMO:
> <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ticket/113>.

I agree, but not in this change. ;)

-- 
Namasté,
Jeffrey Yasskin


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