Adding (??) into Data.Functor

[Andreas Abel]

I am a -1 on both proposals, i.e., on having a special map for the 
"apply to a fixed argument" case.

On 16.02.2014 21:42, Nikita Volkov wrote:
> Also, since the variable input of this combinator seems to be on the
> functor side I suggest to inverse the arguments order order, i.e.:
>
>      mapf :: a -> f (a -> b) -> f b
>
> This way it'll target composition. And since it's a combinator over
> functions it's a pretty important thing. E.g.:
>      mapf 2 . map (*) $ [1..10]

I'd simply write

   map (2 *) [1..10]

Cheers,
Andreas

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