This is meant to model errors. You want your computation to continue if everything is going all-Right, but if there is an error, you want it to stop there are report the error. This error is represented by Left constructor.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com> wrote:
The Functor instance is defined for `Either a`, so Left is fixed. fmap only maps over Right. You'll find the same behavior for `(,) a`, e.g. `fmap (*2) (1,2) == (1,4)`.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Shishir Srivastava <shishir.srivastava@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, 

Can someone please explain the difference in outputs of the following two expressions - 

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ghci> fmap (replicate 3) (Right "blah")  
Right ["blah","blah","blah"]  

ghci> fmap (replicate 3) (Left "foo")  
Left "foo" 

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Why does 'Right' return a list of Strings whereas 'Left' returns just a String.

Thanks,
Shishir 

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