transformers

[David Menendez]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fair enough.
> These are the observations I have about 'transformers'.

> 2.) The instance for Applicative for MaybeT doesn't really follow the other
> instances for Applicative in transformers.
> instance Applicative m => Applicative (MaybeT m) where
>    pure = MaybeT . pure . Just
>    f <*> a = MaybeT $ (<*>) <$> runMaybeT f <*> runMaybeT a
> would instead follow the convention that Applicatives depend only on
> Applicatives where possible, as opposed to the current default instance.
> This convention is followed everywhere in transformers except this module.

Then you no longer have (<*>) = ap.

This convention is also not followed for the StateT and ErrorT
transformers for the same reason.

If you want something like MaybeT f whose Applicative instance depends
only on the Applicative instance of f, try Compose f Maybe.

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Dave Menendez <dave at zednenem.com>
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