On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Ross Paterson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Perhaps we should make some and many methods of Alternative, <* and *>
> methods of Applicative and <$ a method of Functor, all with the current
> definitions as defaults.  (John Meacham was also asking for the first
> of these.)


+1

As a justification, (*>) and (>>) serve much the same purpose, and (>>) is
already exposed via Monad to permit the same kinds of optimizations that an
explicit override of (*>) proffers.

-Edward Kmett
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