Proposal: Applicative => Monad: Call for consensus

Edward Kmett ekmett at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 09:02:04 CET 2011


On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Tyson Whitehead <twhitehead at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> It seems to me that while join is more of a value transformer as apposed to
> a
> flow combining operator, which makes it fit in better with the rest
> applicative.
>

Join can't be defined in terms of Applicative combinators alone. Being an
Applicative with join is enough to be a Monad.
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