foldable flexible bridges (putting foldable+traversable in prelude) Re: Burning bridges

[Henning Thielemann]

On Tue, 21 May 2013, Carter Schonwald wrote:

> 2) does the change make learning the language more challenging? No. In fact, i've encountered *many* more
> smart people getting confused as to why the map / fold etc in prelude are all list specific than i've seen
> people struggle with type classes.

The Haskell beginners I know, even have problems with 'map' and even more 
'fold' being higher order functions.