Haskell Foldable Wast

[Henrik Nilsson]

Hi,

On 02/18/2016 12:41 PM, Manuel Gómez wrote:
>> >And whenever I have wanted to map on tuple fields (which I do from
>> >time to time), I most certainly want the ability to map on any field.
> Anyone with a couple of decades of Haskell experience ought to
> understand that the desire to map on any field of a record cannot be
> served by a typeclass such as Functor.

Yes, that's exactly my point: functor is not the right tool. So
why make tuples instances of functor in the first place?

And yes, there is arguably an asymmetry of sorts in having to pick an
order among type constructor arguments. But that does not change the
fact that there is symmetry in having a projection function for
each field. So why even entertain a notion of mapping that
doesn't grant the same privileges to all fields?

Might be useful in some specialist applications, but certainly not
what I, at least, would consider particularly useful.

Best,

/Henrik

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Henrik Nilsson
School of Computer Science
The University of Nottingham
nhn at cs.nott.ac.uk




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