Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monoid wants a (++) equivalent

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Jason Dusek wrote:

2009/07/03 George Pollard :

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This discussion points to a wider issue: at some stage we should look at pulling all the nice "new" stuff into Haskell prelude. I'm looking at you, Data.Foldable,Traversable.

Also, throw out `map`. ;)

 What is the proper name for the operation on functions of a  functor, anyway? The name `fmap` seems to driven by an analogy  with `map`.

-- Jason Dusek _______________________________________________

I think map would be the right name. IMO, what would be really nice would be to rename "fmap" to "map" (and then fmap would become a deprecated synonym for map), etc., and get rid of many of the special cases for lists in the Prelude. The only backward compatibility problem that has been brought up is monomorphism restriction stuff, though. Alex