The purpose of this type-class is to support the data-types in the
Monix library and it is considered a shim for a lawful type-class
to be supplied by libraries such as Cats or Scalaz or equivalent.
CREDITS: The type-class encoding has been inspired by the Scado
project and Scalaz 8 and
the type has been extracted from Cats.
A functor provides the
map
operation that allows lifting anf
function into the functor context and applying it.To implement
Functor
:The purpose of this type-class is to support the data-types in the Monix library and it is considered a shim for a lawful type-class to be supplied by libraries such as Cats or Scalaz or equivalent.
CREDITS: The type-class encoding has been inspired by the Scado project and Scalaz 8 and the type has been extracted from Cats.