Applicative functor

In functional programming, specifically Haskell, an applicative functor is a structure that is like a monad (return, fmap, join) without join, or…

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2017

Monads and applicative functors are two ways that Haskell programmers bundle effectful primitives into effectful program…

2015

Applicative functors augment computations with effects by lifting function application to types which model the effects [5]. As…

2012

Essential to ML-style module systems is the concept of a functor, i.e. a function from modules to modules. Functors are ML’s way…

2010

Mathematicians routinely lift operators to structures. For instance, almost every textbook on calculus lifts addition pointwise…