Re: [Haskell-beginners] Functors and Applicatives; I'm just not getting it ...

Thanks but I think this misses the point a bit. A some point in time, I will need an explanation about applicatives and teg supposedly best documentation (or at least the documentation I see advocated in numerous places) seems really bad at providing that explanation, a point I find worrisome. I know myself well enough to say becoming comfortable with functors will not make understanding applicatives any easier if the applicatives explanation is not clear and, right now, the explanation is not clear. On Sunday, October 19, 2014, Karl Voelker wrote:

I suggest that you ignore applicatives for now and just focus on plain-old functors. They are the simplest part, and once you are confident in dealing with them, adding on applicatives will be much easier.

And, although it can be difficult when you are really lost, if you can ask some more specific questions, this list will provide plenty of answers.

-Karl

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On Oct 18, 2014, at 3:37 PM, Frank javascript:;> wrote:

I've had a go at LYAH and CIS 194 and the Typeclassopedia and I just don't get get functors and applicatives. I'm simply not understanding them, what the various symbols/keywords mean, what they represent, how to think of them, etc. Nothing. Is there any kind of documented model I should be considering? Is there a "functors and applicatives for Dummies" I should read? Should I just give it up, not bother with Haskell and just stick to scheme/ruby/C++?

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