Sergey Torgashov

Hi there, just a check-up: where do we stand on this PR?

Personally, I do like the idea, but still not sure that it belongs here: since it is a bunch of extension methods for standard Scala functions, it looks more like...

First of all, sorry if my "bunch" wording might look dismissively – I didn't mean that. I just meant that there are many of them, not just one. I see...

@armanbilge , Btw, this part is quite clumsy: ``` * Example: * {{{ * scala> import cats.Functor * scala> import cats.implicits.catsStdInstancesForOption ``` I don't think such an import should ever...

@kubukoz , I think I'm fine with landing `liftN` in Cats. (The Arman's point above helped me to lean towards this a bit) A couple more thoughts on the PR:...

@kubukoz , > especially with the cross-compilation flags I mentioned earlier (and Scala 3). Oh, you're right, this line from my example compiles on Scala 2.13 with `-Xsource:3` (even without...

Sorry for asking if it has been discussed somewhere else already, but I'm just wondering: > If the applicative is secretly a StackSafeMonad ... Does it have to be _secretly_...

Thank you for the fix! Note that `Later` is one of the `Leaf` descendants. The other two are `Always` and `Now`. I wonder if it makes sense to make all...

@yanns , I lost tracking of your PR, sorry. Would you mind updating it to the most recent "main" such that we could re-run all the checks please? Thank you!

> Is this intended to behave similarly to mapN, but without the Cats dependency? Pretty much. To be more accurate, it is supposed to resemble functions `map2` through `map22` of...