Refactoring Semigroup/Monoid (was: instance Applicative Data.Map)

[Edward Kmett]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Tyson Whitehead <twhitehead at gmail.com>wrote:

>   instance Monad m => Applicative m where
>     applicative_map = monad_map
>     applicative_pure = monad_pure
>     applicative_apply = monad_apply
>

With this instance you are already dead in the water. Once you have it you
can't safely add *any* new instances in another module and be able to rely
on them being seen by the type system, so no, it doesn't work ;)

-Edward
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