Proposal: Applicative => Monad: Call for consensus

[John Smith]

On 04/01/2011 14:25, Ian Lynagh wrote:
>> Now which notable things are not included in the patch for base:
>>
>> * fmap is not renamed to map.
>> * return and (>>) are not removed as a method.
>> * fail is not removed as a method.
>> * All the liftM functions are not removed in favour of fmap and liftAs.
>>
>> I think these are better left as separate proposals.
>
> OK, but I think it would be good to get any changes into a single
> release, so people only need to fix their instances once.

Further patches can be proposed for the next release of GHC after this change is accepted.