Proposal: add $> to Data.Functor

[Ben Franksen]

Data.Functor has <$> and <$, but not $>, which should be a flipped version 
of <$, analogous to <*>, <*, and *> in Control.Applicative. I was astonished 
to see that Data.Functor doesn't have it so I had to write it myself. Then I 
looked on hackage and found it defined in comonad package (also re-exported 
from semigroupoids). One (seemingly unmaintained, last version Apr 2012) 
package named iterIO has it, too.

infixl 4 $>
-- | Replace the contents of a functor uniformly with a constant value.
($>) :: Functor f => f b -> a -> f a
($>) = flip (<$)

I propose to add this to Data.Functor; mostly because I think users expect 
it there (again by analogy with Applicative), even though it is trivial to 
write (but then writing <$ is trivial, too).

Cheers
Ben
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