30 Nov
2010
30 Nov
'10
10:18 a.m.
On Monday 29 November 2010 10:30:57 am Stephen Tetley wrote:
Speaking personally, I'm quite happy to have both map and (functorial) fmap.
Haskell's intention is to be a "state of the art _functional_ language", so keeping the functional core doesn't seem unwarranted to me. There is the Charity language which was "categorical" first, and "functional" second if people really want a "crystal mountain".
There's also a language called Haskell 1.4 in which fmap is called map, among other things. Unfortunately, neither it nor Charity are still developed. -- Dan