Applicative Functors for multiple arguments
Working our way backwards from solution to problem, we define an applicative functor, then use it to apply a function of multiple arguments.
I've found slightly different signature of lift over the internet here.
The most 'confusing' part is not a signature of lift itself as its only matter of currying here, but the more interesting question comes when looking at the signature of lifted function. Yours comes uncurried and the other one is curried.
I'm struggling with the concept itself and would like to debug this to the atoms (and gonna do this with both approaches), just wondering about your opinion on the matter. I guess the form of those is not really that much relevant as its the idea which matters.
OTOH I see the whole functional programming as the universal contract on the ideas between languages and in that case it matters which one is more 'correct'.
Good observation for sure. I think currying should be done all or nothing. It's confusing to me without type signatures if some functions are curried and others aren't. Ramda subscribes wholesale which is intuitive. I think we should go all one or the other in a single codebase
...and now I understand liftA2. Thanks for the great walk-through