Proposal: Add (<$>) to Prelude as part of the AMP in GHC 7.10-RC3

[David Feuer]

That is not and was never the motivation of FTP. FTP was about not wanting
to have to hide a zillion functions from Prelude, Data.List,
Control.Applicative, and Control.Monad. Functors are utterly ubiquitous in
Haskell programming, so adding an operator to make them easier to use seems
quite sensible.
On Feb 27, 2015 12:19 PM, "Henning Thielemann" <
lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Greg Fitzgerald wrote:
>
>   If you really want to use those operators, import Data.Functor.  Why
>> must it be in the Prelude?
>>
>
> It seems that many Haskell programmers don't like to write "import".
> That's the whole motivation for FTP. I can't understand it, too.
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