On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:36:57PM -0400, David Menendez wrote:
> Conor T McBride writes:
> >
> > infixl 9 <%> -- my name for <# -- others have other names
> > class Idiom i where
> > idi :: x -> i x
> > (<%>) :: i (s -> t) -> i s -> i t
> >
> > I call them idioms because it's like having the apparatus
> > of applicative programming, just in a different (perhaps impure)
> > idiom.
> >
> > [I only just found out that they show up under the name Sequence
> > in the experimental Control.Sequence module. I should have known.
> > It's part of the Arrow stuff, and these things are an interesting
> > species of Arrow. As far as I know, it was Ross Paterson who
> > identified them in the categorical jungle as weakly symmetric lax
> > monoidal functors.]
>
> I've also seen this referred to as a pointed functor[1] and a premonad[2].
> [...]
> class Functor f where
> fmap :: (a -> b) -> f a -> f b
>
> class Functor p => Premonad p where
> return :: a -> p a
Not quite: premonads let you lift values (using return) and unary
functions (using fmap), but the things Conor is talking about let
you lift functions of any arity. A premonad doesn't give you
lift2 :: (a -> b -> b) -> f a -> f b -> f c
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