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A functor with application, providing operations to

• embed pure expressions (pure), and
• sequence computations and combine their results (<*>).

A minimal complete definition must include implementations of these functions satisfying the following laws:

identity

pure id <*> v = v

composition

pure (.) <*> u <*> v <*> w = u <*> (v <*> w)

homomorphism

pure f <*> pure x = pure (f x)

interchange

u <*> pure y = pure ($ y) <*> u

The other methods have the following default definitions, which may be overridden with equivalent specialized implementations:

• u *> v = pure (const id) <*> u <*> v

• u <* v = pure const <*> u <*> v

As a consequence of these laws, the Functor instance for f will satisfy

• fmap f x = pure f <*> x

If f is also a Monad, it should satisfy

• pure = return

• (<*>) = ap

(which implies that pure and <*> satisfy the applicative functor laws).