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by tinyspacewizard 239 days ago
This seems like a cool article, but it isn't readable without Haskell background knowledge.

> For an intuition why this is true, consider that the constant functor Const r has an Applicative instance whenever r is a monoid, because pure stores a mempty value and (<*>) combines the held values with (<>). For a fun exercise, implement runAp_ in terms of runAp and Const.

Really?