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by asib 2102 days ago
Aha yes interesting. I would say that I think this is a minor issue in the grand scheme. The meat of this library is, to my eyes, the type system and language features. More concretely, if the implementation of typeclasses is correct, I'm less concerned that the definition of Applicative is not (although I recognise that it doesn't necessarily inspire confidence). Fixing that definition is relatively straightforward.
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Yeah I get that, but then again the Semigroup, Monoid, Functor, Applicative and Monad classes should aim to be correct because they form the base of a lot of other typeclasss. Maybe this project is something that I can contribute to in my free time :). I was missing a lot of the functional language features in python. It's a shame that it's still so clunky to work with lambdas etc.