Last Updated: March 01, 2018
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Haskell - Applicatives in GHCi

Running :i Applicative in ghci yields the following:

class Functor f => Applicative (f :: * -> *) where
  pure :: a -> f a
  (<*>) :: f (a -> b) -> f a -> f b
  GHC.Base.liftA2 :: (a -> b -> c) -> f a -> f b -> f c
  (*>) :: f a -> f b -> f b
  (<*) :: f a -> f b -> f a

Plus it lists available instances of the Applicative typeclass:

instance Applicative (Either e) -- Defined in ‘Data.Either’
instance Applicative [] -- Defined in ‘GHC.Base’
instance Applicative Maybe -- Defined in ‘GHC.Base’
instance Applicative IO -- Defined in ‘GHC.Base’
instance Applicative ((->) a) -- Defined in ‘GHC.Base’
instance Monoid a => Applicative ((,) a) -- Defined in ‘GHC.Base’

More information on applicatives: http://notes.maciejsmolinski.com/2018/02/17/applicatives-by-example/