Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fmap and Map for lists

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Strikingwolf2012 . wrote:

Does anyone have any idea why fmap (Functor map) and the list map are separate functions? I think it would make plenty sense for the Functor map to just be named map and have lists respond to that

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6824255/whats-the-point-of-map-in-haskell... tl;dr: Historical reasons, have more of this here https://wiki.haskell.org/Nitpicks