And then one release Applicative was made the superclass of Monad.
After months of mailing list discussion and committee meetings. This is my go-to example for why I'd like a language with a push-out lattice of theories (path-independent accumulation of types, operators, laws). This should ideally "just work", no committees needed. Coding with math-like tight locality.
This historical accident has, IMO, made the language harder to teach.
As LLM refactoring continues to improve, perhaps instead of current "here's an alternate prelude which cleans up historical mess for teaching", we might get to "here's a global refactoring of cabal and open docs to ..."?
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After months of mailing list discussion and committee meetings. This is my go-to example for why I'd like a language with a push-out lattice of theories (path-independent accumulation of types, operators, laws). This should ideally "just work", no committees needed. Coding with math-like tight locality.
As LLM refactoring continues to improve, perhaps instead of current "here's an alternate prelude which cleans up historical mess for teaching", we might get to "here's a global refactoring of cabal and open docs to ..."?