Brian Lonsdorf

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There's an Unfoldable package that gives some guidance here: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/unfoldable-0.8.1/docs/Data-Unfoldable.html It even provides `fromList` Regarding #7, it seems like Cofoldable makes sense over Unfoldable if the whole purpose is to...

Might have already seen, but all i have so far is this: https://medium.com/@drboolean/lenses-with-immutable-js-9bda85674780

Thanks! I have 1 chapter left to write which is a "real world" pure app. Are there other's you'd like to see?

That's a good idea. 8 is definitely the huge hurdle of the book and learning FP

It's a good thing to mention there. I'll put something in for sure. Thanks!

Hi! Yeah, i’m Aware of the difference and decided to stick with what every other do language does. I don’t know why fantasyland decided to change the spec, but I...

I'm down with writing something like "this diverges from the fantasyland spec, but matches every other spec out there", then maybe give an example of the fantasyland version and why...

I think the confusion here is "category of types and functions", which I meant to be just our normal category of JS that has JS values and JS functions. It...

Hi Chet, Thanks for the feedback! I agree that Ch9 could use some clarification. The Task applicative instance has been rewritten and currently is sitting in a PR. That will...

I should update that last part to read: "Though we could already do so with monads, we should prefer the applicative functor _instance_ when we aren't in need of monadic...