On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Sebastian Fischer wrote:

Hello,

I'm curious and go a bit off topic triggered by your statement:

On Nov 6, 2010, at 12:49 PM, rocon...@theorem.ca wrote:

An applicative functor morphism is a polymorphic function,
eta : forall a. A1 a -> A2 a between two applicative functors A1 and A2 that preserve pure and <*>

I recently wondered: why "morphism" and not "homomorphism"?

Morphisms can be more general than homomorphisms. But in this case I mean the morphisms which are homomorphisms. I was too lazy to write out the whole word.

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