Re: Make Prelude's map = fmap (Nikita Volkov)

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Gabriel Gonzalez writes:

I'm in favor of generalizing `map`.  At first I was wary of less monomorphic types, but now I've found that it's not that hard to just lie and pretend the type is more specialized when teaching.  Plus, `map` is a much nicer name than `fmap`.

+1, pending results on how it affects foldr/build fusion. -- John Wiegley FP Complete Haskell tools, training and consulting http://fpcomplete.com johnw on #haskell/irc.freenode.net