PROPOSAL: Make Applicative a superclass of Monad

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Ashley,

Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 1:15:19 PM, you wrote:

> Make Applicative (in Control.Applicative) a superclass of Monad (in

it will break H98 compatibility - some code written in H98 will be
impossible to compile with such library. since GHC is (among other
features) provides full H98 compatibility, we can't make such change

well, at least i expect such answer from GHC HQ :)


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