2008/4/24 Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 23:55 schrieb Cale Gibbard: > > […] > > > Rename fmap to map > > This would be really great! There is no point in having a map just for lists > and a general map for functors since the list map is the same as the list > instance's functor map. And identifiers with a single lowercase letter in > front or after a lowercase word (fmap, foldr, etc.) are not nice, in my > opinion. > > > > (like it was in Haskell 1.4), > > It really was this way in Haskell 1.4? Why was it changed? > > > > and define (.) as a synonym for it. > > I don't think that this is reasonable. (.) corresponds to the little circle > in math which is a composition. So (.) = (<<<) would be far better. >
But the realisation here is that composition *is* functor application, for a certain rather important functor. :) - Cale _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime