[Haskell-cafe] Call for comments: neither package

Michael Snoyman michael at snoyman.com
Tue Jun 29 03:27:41 EDT 2010


On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Stephen Tetley
<stephen.tetley at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Michael
>
> If you going to the trouble of constructing a sum type (obliged to be
> 2 parameter) expressly to play well with the favourite single
> parameter classes e.g. Functor/ Applicative / Monad [*], maybe it is
> worth considering new names for the type and its constructors relating
> to what the Applicative/Monad instances actually model.
>
> I'm definitely open to such an approach, but I couldn't come up with any
good names ;). I'm open to suggestions.

As an aside, my wife is a classics major (Greek and Latin), and she
recommended I name the constructors "Sinister" and "Dexter".

Michael
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