Haskell Foldable Wats

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Tue Mar 22 09:21:28 UTC 2016


On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Manuel Gómez wrote:

> To avoid this unhelpful outcome, if the community decided to forbid
> these instances, some language extension would have to be designed to
> forbid instance definitions.  This has been discussed previously.

It's possible to achieve this without language extensions.

>  If the community did this, it would break a lot of code that does use 
> these instances, and there would be no workaround,

The backwards-compatible work-around would be simple: Don't use fmap, but 
mapThd3 and friends.

It would be a good opportunity to cleanup code.


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