Drastic Prelude changes imminent

harry voldermort at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 27 18:57:13 UTC 2015


Augustsson, Lennart wrote
> A lot of people might have opinions about what is good for beginners, but
> the only opinions that matter are from those who have actually taught a
> large number of beginners.  I'm not one of them, so I'll keep my beginner
> opinions to myself.

When I was a beginner, I don't recall having trouble understanding the
polymorphic versions, but I was soundly confounded by the apparent
redundancy of map/fmap etc. Particularly when the answer was "to make things
easier for beginners"!



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