Clarify relationship between Functor and Applicative
roconnor at theorem.ca
roconnor at theorem.ca
Fri Feb 25 23:34:18 CET 2011
In the applicative documentation, it says for an Applicative functor f:
The Functor instance should satisfy
fmap f x = pure f <*> x
I think the documentation should be clarified that this does not need to
be checked because it is a consequence of the other applicative laws.
See <http://hpaste.org/44315/applicative_implies_functor>.
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