On 01/10/16 15:10, Mario Blažević wrote:
CC-ing the Café on class naming...
On 2016-10-01 04:07 AM, Edward Kmett wrote:
I'm somewhat weakly against these, simply because they haven't seen broad adoption in the wild in any of the attempts to introduce them elsewhere, and they don't quite fit the naming convention of the other Foo1 classes in Data.Functor.Classes
Basically this. What is popular on hackage should be the first metric to consider when putting something in base (even if it fits well on a module in there), we ought to not bypass this. BTW, I think that Alt newtype in Data.Monoid helps with this use case but that is usually for Alternative instead of Functor (to me just really esoteric things are one and not the other), am I missing something else on this proposal?