I was needing a way to zip generic data structures together today and was very annoyed to find that there is no Zippable class, or variant there of. So I made my own: class (Foldable f, Functor f) => Zippable f where fmaps :: (Foldable g) => g (a -> b) -> f a -> f b fmaps' :: [a -> b] -> f a -> f b -- to save a step on instance implementation zipWith :: (a -> b -> c) -> f a -> f b -> f c zip :: f a -> f b -> f (a, b) unzip :: f (a, b) -> (f a, f b) fmaps fs a = fmaps' (toList fs) a fmaps' fs a = fmaps fs a zipWith f a b = fmaps (fmap f a) b zip = zipWith (,) unzip a = (fmap fst a, fmap snd a) instance Zippable [] where fmaps' (fx:fs) (x:xs) = fx x : fmaps' fs xs fmaps' _ _ = [] --The fmaps function is also quite handy as a replacment for zipWith3, zipWith4, etc... --For example: x = [1, 3, 5, 7, 3] y = [6, 9, 3, 1, 4] z = [2, 4, 0, 8, 2] test = fmap (,,) x `fmaps` y `fmaps` z -- > [(1,6,2),(3,9,4),(5,3,0),(7,1,8),(3,4,2)] --you can also throw in a functor instance to remove the dependency on the Functor class, but it -- might not be worth it: instance (Zippable f) => Functor f where fmap f a = fmaps (repeat f) a Is there any good reason that there isn't something like this in the standard libraries? Or, as far as I can tell, on hackage? If not, then maybe I'll stick it on hackage. - Job Vranish