Haskell Foldable Wats
Kosyrev Serge
_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru
Wed Feb 24 15:24:02 UTC 2016
Nathan Bouscal <nbouscal at gmail.com> writes:
> What you seem to be saying, though, is one of two things.
> 1: "In all contexts, you should only ever use tuples for this purpose", or
> 2: "If you find another purpose to use tuples for, you shouldn't use them as Functors"
..
> Option 2 is more humble in that it allows for the possibility that
> there's a use-case you're unfamiliar with, but instead it just makes
> an arbitrary decision that, whatever this unfamiliar use-case is,
> surely they shouldn't be using Functor. I don't see any way to justify
> that position.
Crucially -- this is a strawman -- nobody is arguing that Functor should
never be defined for tuples.
The argument is against forcing one specific instance of Functor on everybody.
--
с уважениeм / respectfully,
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