Proposal: flipped fmap in base (again)

[Andreas Abel]

I am using `for`

 
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Agda-2.5.2/docs/Agda-Utils-Functor.html

and I think taking `for` for Applicative was name theft.

On 19.02.2017 23:52, Elliot Cameron wrote:
> Could we instead have "ffor" which can be used prefix or infix and
> avoids the operator soup problem?
>
> On Feb 18, 2017 3:24 PM, "Edward Kmett" <ekmett at gmail.com
> <mailto:ekmett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm weakly +1 on this proposal. In my experience
>
>     foo <&> \x -> ...
>
>     works out as a nice idiom because it avoids having to parenthesize
>     the lambda unlike the usual <$> convention.
>
>     For me, I can just make lens re-export the Data.Functor version on
>     newer GHCs.
>
>     -Edward
>
>     On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Siddhanathan Shanmugam
>     <siddhanathan+eml at gmail.com <mailto:siddhanathan+eml at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         > For completeness, your proposal should also specify from which
>         > module this will be exported and what the fixity and precedence will be.
>
>         module Data.Functor, infixl 1, and should not be in prelude.
>
>         > Those arguments seems to me as compelling today as they were 7
>         > years ago, what has changed meanwhile?
>
>         The addition of (&) in
>         base: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2013-October/021423.html
>         <https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2013-October/021423.html>
>
>
>         -- Sid
>
>
>         On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Andreas Abel <abela at chalmers.se
>         <mailto:abela at chalmers.se>> wrote:
>
>             +1 from me.  --Andreas
>
>             On 18.02.2017 12:01, John Wiegley wrote:
>
>                                     "BvD" == Bas van Dijk
>                                     <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com
>                                     <mailto:v.dijk.bas at gmail.com>> writes:
>
>
>                 BvD> I'm still in favour of this so a +1 from me.
>
>                 +1 from me too.
>
>
>
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