Don't think it's practical/good to make people learn >>=, <$>, <*>, <|, <|* to decode JSON.
Alternative pragmatism:
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Ideally we give these with proper names as extensions to STL types and jump to infix later. 1.1 broke that.
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their names are not meaningful to novices either.
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But how do we become non novices without learning something? Those concepts are about more than JSON parsing…
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are we interested in learning how to parse JSON or how to recognise and use those higher concepts?
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I've always viewed those JSON tutes as teaching the usefulness of FP and its abstractions, rather than about JSON.
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If it were still up to the purists, we’d be using “Idioms” and composing them with tensor notation!