Of note, there is a sensible monad instance for zip lists which I *think* agrees with the Applicative one, I don't know why they're not monads:
Yes. ZipList.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Applicative_Functors
2009/10/30 Yusaku Hashimoto <nonowarn@gmail.com>:
--> Hello cafe,
> Do you know any data-type which is Applicative but not Monad?
>
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