On Jul 2, 2009, at 17:59 , wren ng thornton wrote:
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:Some Haskell programmers use fmap (because most Monads are also Functors), others use liftM. Both have the same effect: given a monadic computation "m a", "liftM f" turns "f" into a function that operates on the enclosed "a" instead of the entire "m a".That is, given the theory behind it all, every monad is a functor (note the lower case); from
Yeh, I decided to bypass the whole "all monads are functors, but for Hysterical Raisins not all Monads are Functors" morass.
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