I don't get why the name isn't "arrow" instead of "arr"... Arr reminds
me of pirates, "arrrrrrrhh" ;-)
I guess "first" was chosen because "fst" was already taken, but then it
would be logical to choose "arrow" instead of "arr" ;-)
Ross Paterson wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:00:43AM -0800, Jonathan Cast wrote:
arr = pure
pure = arr
[...]
This example is admittedly kind of silly, but I'm sure someone has a
passionate attachment to one or both names, so requiring definitions
to use one or the other would be controversial.
Perhaps not. I used the name pure for arr in the Fun of Programming
paper, because Richard Bird preferred that name, but it hasn't caught on,
and now the same name is used in the Applicative class. So perhaps it
should be removed from Arrow.
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