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Some Applicative Functors

Some Applicative Functors

Everybody’s favorite applicatives, and their semigroups.

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Chris Martin
Mar 12, 2017
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Types are great. Lifting them into some sort of applicative functor makes them even better. This post is an homage to our favorite applicatives, and to the semigroups with which they are instrinsically connected.

Lifted-but-why

LiftedButWhy is a boring functor that just has one value and no other structure or interesting properties.

data LiftedButWhy a =

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