On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 01:28:28PM -0800, Iavor Diatchki wrote:
3) rename FunctorM class to ForEach I was suggesting here that we rename the method to "forEach" and swap the order of the arguments. The reason I suggested this is that I find myself writing code like this a lot:
mapM (\x -> do ... some monadic ... ... code goes here ... ) xs
this look better in this form:
forEach xs (\x -> do ... some monadic ... ... code goes here ... )
why not just define a normal function: forEach = flip fmapM ? Calling the whole class ForEach makes the connection to Functor/Monad less clear, and renaming only the method seems rather inconsequent to me. Remi P.S. Then we can finally start a Holy War about the One True "Brace" Style. I'm usually writing: forEach xs $ \x -> do ... ;) -- Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.