jon.fairbairn:
> I find myself dismayed that the mathematical relationship
> between Monads and Functors isn't available in Haskell98; if
> I use fmap in a Monad m=>... typed function, I get an extra
> Functor m required in the context, but not only are all
> mathematical monads functors, any instance of Monad has fmap
> in the form (>>= return . f), so it's annoying.
For interest. Here's the defn in the Gofer prelude from 1994:
class Functor f where
map :: (a -> b) -> (f a -> f b)
class Functor m => Monad m where
result :: a -> m a
join :: m (m a) -> m a
bind :: m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
join x = bind x id
x `bind` f = join (map f x)
class Monad m => Monad0 m where
zero :: m a
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/data/cc.prelude
-- Don
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