Proposal: Add bifunctor related classes to base

Andreas Abel andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de
Sat Apr 26 07:31:02 UTC 2014


I retract my bikeshedding attempt.

On 25.04.14 8:18 PM, Dan Doel wrote:
> ​In my code, I use (<&>) from lens when I need a flipped fmap:
>
>      let ys = xs <&> \x -> ...
>
> and do use Applicative for.

Maybe & and <&> become standard at some point, and then I am maybe fine 
to use them.  Only that "<&>", unlike "for", does not evoke any 
association to iteration in my brain.

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