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Re:Becoming Productive in Haskell by tormeh on Friday April 24, 2015 @09:32AM (#9433137)
In Scala there aren't any names for functors that I'm aware of. I just though one day that "wouldn't it be practical if I could map an option instead of match-casing the meaning out?" and lo and behold it worked. Maybe we just don't need that much terminology.
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Re:Becoming Productive in Haskell by whateveracct on Friday April 24, 2015 @01:04PM (#9434584)
That's because the Scala stdlib doesn't abstract over things that can be mapped over. If you want to do that, then you need a typeclass. Scalaz has a typeclass for mappable things and it's called Functor.
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Re:Becoming Productive in Haskell by lmm on Friday April 24, 2015 @11:26AM (#9433974)
You need a term for "thing that I can map" if you want to be able to write a function that takes a generic "thing that I can map". Which I do.
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