On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Isaac Dupree
This parallelism also suggests to me that <$$> should be placed (only) in Control.Applicative, which is where <*>, <$>, and <**> reside. Yeah, I know that's annoying...
That's indeed annoying. What about removing <$> and <$ from Control.Applicative? One advantage is that this reduces the complexity tax of Control.Applicative. One disadvantage is that this will surely break some code. Especially because, for some weird reason, Data.Functor is not know to hoogle. http://haskell.org/hoogle/?q=Data.Functor And <$> is reported to be only exported by Control.Applicative http://haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%3C%24%3E sigh... Let's save this for a new proposal however... Bas P.S. Jonathan, thanks for the equational law relating <$$> and <**>: a <$$> f = a <**> return f this has strongly put me back in the +1 camp :-)