
27 Mar
2018
27 Mar
'18
10:22 a.m.
I see this as being generally (as in, to the users of Haskell as a whole) useful: newtype Ap f a = Ap { getAp :: f a } deriving (Applicative, Eq, Foldable, Functor, Generic, Generic1 ,Monad, Ord, Read, Show, Traversable) Some hand-written instances: instance (Applicative f, Semigroup a) => Semigroup (Ap f a) where (Ap x) <> (Ap y) = Ap $ liftA2 (<>) x y instance (Applicative f, Monoid a) => Monoid (Ap f a) where mempty = Ap $ pure mempty