Adding (??) into Data.Functor

[Dimitri Sabadie]

This is a special case you mentionned there; it's not about lists, it's
about Functor. And applying a function with fmap using ($) is quite ugly.


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Andreas Abel <abela at chalmers.se> wrote:

> 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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