Today a student came to me wondering why a certain function produced a regular result, where he had expected an error.  Turned out he had used `concat`, but not on a lists of lists as he had thought, but on a lists of `Either a [b]`.

With the Foldable instance for Either, which considers Either a b to be a container of 0-1 elements of b, errors are happily swallowed.

I think this instance is harmful and should be deprecated (and later removed) from base.

There are similarly pointless Foldable instances as well.

See a discussion one year ago, which was heated, but had no consequences.

https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2016-February/026678.html


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Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden

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