Re: PROPOSAL: Make Applicative a superclass of Monad

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:43:08PM +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:

Could someone explain why it breaks H98 compatibility? Control.Applicative alone is at least marked "portable".

This Haskell98 module no longer works: module Foo where data Foo a = Foo instance Monad Foo where return _ = Foo Thanks Ian