SYB generics and Monad vs Applicative

José Pedro Magalhães jpm at cs.uu.nl
Tue Jan 10 07:34:40 CET 2012


Hi Conal,

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 21:41, Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net> wrote:

> I've been learning to the SYB generics functionality in Data.Data and the
> syb package. I find myself wondering whether the use of Monad and MonadPlus
> could be generalized to Applicative and Alternative. My first experiments
> suggest that they can be and that some of the code can be greatly
> simplified.
>
> Has this question already been explored?
>

Not as far as I know. Do you have some code you can share?


Thanks,
Pedro


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