29 Nov
2010
29 Nov
'10
10:30 a.m.
On 29 November 2010 13:28, John Smith
fmap = map
This could be part of a legacy module, along with any other eliminated duplicated functions. Historical cruft remains in Haskell far too long; is there no desire for an occasional cleanup?
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".