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Georgi Lyubenov authored
Changes: In order to be warning free and compatible, we hide Applicative(..) from Prelude in a few places and instead import it directly from Control.Applicative. Please see the migration guide at https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee/blob/main/guides/export-lifta2-prelude.md for more details. This means that Applicative is now exported in its entirety from Prelude. Motivation: This change is motivated by a few things: * liftA2 is an often used function, even more so than (<*>) for some people. * When implementing Applicative, the compiler will prompt you for either an implementation of (<*>) or of liftA2, but trying to use the latter ends with an error, without further imports. This could be confusing for newbies. * For teaching, it is often times easier to introduce liftA2 first, as it is a natural generalisation of fmap. * This change seems to have been unanimously and enthusiastically accepted by the CLC members, possibly indicating a lot of love for it. * This change causes very limited breakage, see the linked issue below for an investigation on this. See https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee/issues/50 for the surrounding discussion and more details.
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