Applicative +Control
This module describes a structure intermediate between a functor and a monad: it provides pure expressions and sequencing, but no binding. (Technically, a strong lax monoidal functor.) For more details, see Applicative Programming with Effects, by Conor McBride and Ross Paterson, online at http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~ross/papers/Applicative.html.
This interface was introduced for parsers by Niklas Röjemo, because it admits more sharing than the monadic interface. The names here are mostly based on recent parsing work by Doaitse Swierstra.
This class is also useful with instances of the Data.Traversable.Traversable class.
Some instances for applicative functors and type-level composition. Forkable on github.
Version 0.1.8
Any applicative functor can be given numeric instances in a boilerplate way. The applicative-numbers package provides an include file that makes it a snap to define these instances. See Data.Numeric.Function for an example.
Project wiki page: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/applicative-numbers
Copyright 2009 Conal Elliott; BSD3 license.
Instances of Num classes for applicative functors. To be #include'd after defining APPLICATIVE as the applicative functor name and CONSTRAINTS as a list of constraints, which must carry its own trailing comma if non-empty. The APPLICATIVE symbol gets #undef'd at the end of the include file, so that multiple includes are convenient.
For instance,
@ #define INSTANCE_Ord #define INSTANCE_Enum
#define APPLICATIVE Vec2 #include "ApplicativeNumeric-inc.hs"
#define APPLICATIVE Vec3 #include "ApplicativeNumeric-inc.hs"
#define APPLICATIVE Vec4 #include "ApplicativeNumeric-inc.hs" @
You'll also have to import pure and liftA2 from Control.Applicative and specify the FlexibleContexts language extension (due to an implementation hack).
Some instances are generated only if a corresponding CPP symbol is defined: INSTANCE_Eq, INSTANCE_Ord, INSTANCE_Show, INSTANCE_Enum
Version 0.0.9
Quasiquoters taken from Matt Morrow's haskell-src-meta to implement Conor McBride's idiom brackets, and a do-notation that only requires Applicative (and is correspondingly less powerful).
Version 0.1.0.5
liftA2 for infix operators.
Version 1.1
regex-applicative is a Haskell library for parsing using regular expressions. Parsers can be built using Applicative interface.
Version 0.2