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From: Alain Frisch <alain.frisch@lexifi.com>
To: Julien Signoles <julien.signoles@gmail.com>
Cc: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>,
	caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What is an applicative functor?
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:58:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9EF86A.9040202@lexifi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikWxjMtFHWShMFA5vKdi29dUsj1vw@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/08/2011 01:25 PM, Julien Signoles wrote:
> 2) module F(X:...) = G(H(X))
>
> Without applicative functors, we again get the error about parameter
> elimination. But I see no workaround to eliminate it without changing
> the signature of F. So IMHO that is a use case where applicative
> functors are useful.

I'd be interested to see a full example for this case.


-- Alain

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-08 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-07 21:12 Dawid Toton
2011-04-07 21:49 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-04-08  0:44   ` [Caml-list] " Dawid Toton
2011-04-08  1:34     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-04-08  6:50   ` [Caml-list] " Andreas Rossberg
2011-04-08  8:04     ` Alain Frisch
2011-04-08  8:20       ` Jacques Garrigue
2011-04-08  8:38         ` Jacques Garrigue
2011-04-08  8:44         ` Alain Frisch
2011-04-08 10:09           ` Jacques Garrigue
2011-04-08 11:25           ` Julien Signoles
2011-04-08 11:58             ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2011-04-11  7:10               ` Julien Signoles
2011-04-11  7:21                 ` Julien Signoles
2011-04-08 13:43           ` rossberg
2011-04-08 16:26             ` Julien Signoles
2011-04-13  2:36             ` Lucas Dixon
2011-04-13  7:23               ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-04-15  3:08                 ` Lucas Dixon
2011-04-19 14:04                   ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-04-08 16:43     ` Till Varoquaux
2011-04-08 17:35       ` Alain Frisch
2011-04-08 18:44       ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-04-08 21:23     ` Lauri Alanko
2011-04-08 21:34       ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-04-09 11:41       ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-04-08  5:35 ` Stefan Holdermans

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