Re: Adding an ignore function to Control.Monad

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

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I vote against 'discard', mainly because I already use it frequently, as an infix operator

discard :: Applicative f => f a -> f b -> f a

Isn't that (<*)?

Quite possibly. I find the chosen symbols for Applicative very difficult to remember though, and much prefer textual names. Regards, Malcolm