[Haskell-cafe] Why the Prelude must die

David Brown haskell2 at davidb.org
Sun Mar 25 21:28:10 EDT 2007


ajb at spamcop.net wrote:
> G'day all.
>
> Quoting Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com>:
>
>> Yes. It will break 100's of applications.
>
> That sounds like a challenge!  Find me 100 applications that use
> Data.Map.map and I will eat crow.

Well, I haven't written 100s of applications (yet), but I get hits on
'map' in each and every one of them.

Of course, wouldn't

  map = fmap

solve the problem?

Dave




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