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A comment on Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures. Parent comment

Re:Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures by dustingetz on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @05:49PM (#9888304)
I don't think applicable is the same as apply, am I wrong?
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Re:Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures by jfoutz on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @06:01PM (#9888374)
eh, it's close. if the semantics are

    apply(fun,args)
it's not much of a mental stretch to do

    apply([fun1,fun2], [arg_for_fun1,arg_for_fun2])
it's probably better to just suck it up and learn the precise terms though. a lot of hazy thinking can hide behind overloaded words.
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