On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:08 PM, aditya siram <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wouldn't-it was a bad example. My only point was that because of the
> way (>>=) is implemented for lists the order of the arguments 'a' and
> 'b' in 'liftM2 f a b' matters.
>
> -deech

No, it's not. The type of liftM2 makes this clear:

liftM2 :: (Monad m) => (a -> b -> r) -> m a -> m b -> m r

The arguments to the function *must* come in the right order, because
there is no way to match (a) with (m b) or (b) with (m a). Since
liftM2 is parametrically polymorphic in (a) and (b), it can't behave
differently in the case where (a = b).

--Max
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