I don't think it's unique to Haskell. The Scalaz library for Scala also provides Applicative: https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz/blob/scalaz-seven/core/src/main/

I don't think it's unique to Haskell. The Scalaz library for Scala also provides Applicative: https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz/blob/scalaz-seven/core/src/main/scala/scalaz/Applicative.scala https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz/blob/scalaz-seven/core/src/... Do they differ in some drastic way? (Note: I'm not super familiar with the Haskell version.)