Hello everyone,
I recently went through GHC's source, and discovered there are quite a
few instances of Monad that don't have Functor or Applicative instances.
Fixing this is very easy by adding the standard instances (pure = return
etc.), and will not break code.
There is one exception to this: Hoopl defines its own (<*>). However,
since it does not seem to have any packages depend on it otherwise,
renaming this operator is also easily done (the thing is only used ten
times or so). I called it (<*|*>) to complement (|*><*|), but naming
should be the least important issue here.
Small piece of backstory:
The idea behind this is making GHC future-proof for changing Applicative
to be a superclass of Monad. However, I think adding the Applicative
instances is a good idea regardless of whether this will ever happen, so
that's the only thing I'm proposing right now.
Greetings,
David
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