20 Oct
2012
20 Oct
'12
12:31 a.m.
Very well, I withdraw my support. I can see the (,) m Applicative version as being useful to people as well. -1 On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Dan Doel <dan.doel@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Edward Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com> wrote:
Unlike the rest of the comments so far, I am
+1
to this proposal.
It has the only reasonable semantics.
There are at least two reasonable choices. The first is this. The second is given by the fact that for any Num a and Applicative f, we can write Num (f a) by lifting all the operations.
I suppose the one proposed here might be more commonly used.
-- Dan