Dear haskellers, I admit I might not have the strongest arguments here, but I thought that I would share my opinion anyway, and maybe get other people's perspectives. I would like to propose bringing the Contravariant class [1] to base. I know, base keeps growing, and maybe there is no need for it to grow further without a strong argument, but I do feel like Contravariant is a simple, very basic class, that would receive better and greater use if included in base. Contravariant is very similar to Functor (some people call it CoFunctor), but in `contramap` (Contravariant's `fmap`) the "arrow" of the applied function goes in the opposite direction. I think that `contramap` can be useful for many types, just like `fmap` is for many others, but we don't use it because it's not yet so popular, or maybe because it requires the contravariant package to be included as dependency (although personally I don't think that is a real problem). The contravariant package itself provides a plentiful of instances, many of them for types in base. In a real world scenario I had, it was very useful to add a Contravariant instance to `Data.Aeson.ToJSONKeyFunction`, that perhaps is not included in aeson because either it was not desired to add the contravariant package as dependency, or simply because Contravariant is not so well-known. Note that, however, `FromJSONKeyFunction` _is_ instance of Functor. Even though both instances are equally natural and useful in this context, only one of them was implemented. This probably would not have happened if Contravariant was in base. So, in my opinion, for the sake of completeness, I think we should add Contravariant to base, just as we have Functor. Note that my proposal does not necessarily include the rest of types and functions defined in the contravariant package. Best regards, Daniel Casanueva # References [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/contravariant-1.4/docs/Data-Functor-Contr...