On Wed, 14 May 2008, David Menendez wrote:
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Ronald Guida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a few questions about commutative monads and applicative functors.
From what I have read about applicative functors, they are weaker than
monads because with a monad, I
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Ronald Guida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a few questions about commutative monads and applicative functors.
From what I have read about applicative functors, they are weaker than
monads because with a monad, I can use the results of a computation to
David Menendez wrote:
To summarize: some applicative functors are commutative, some
applicative functors are monads, and the ones that are both are
commutative monads.
OK, so commutativity is orthogonal to idiom vs monad. Commutativity
depends on whether or not the order of side effects is
I have a few questions about commutative monads and applicative functors.
From what I have read about applicative functors, they are weaker than
monads because with a monad, I can use the results of a computation to
select between alternative future computations and their side effects,
whereas
