Proposal: add liftA4 and liftA5 to match liftM4 and liftM5

[Michael Snoyman]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Henning Thielemann <
lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Michael Snoyman wrote:
>
>  David: I think the resistance you're seeing is coming from the fact that-
>> at least in my experience- liftMN
>> is not considered good, idiomatic Haskell code,
>>
>
> Who does not consider it good or idiomatic and why? Lifting things through
> some stages of types is a common thing in Haskell, or not?
>

I wasn't talking about lifting as a general concept, I was comparing to <$>
and <*>. From what I've seen of Haskell code in general, people use the
operators far more often, and tend to recommend them to new users.

Michael
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