Do Applicative Functors generalize the S & K Combinators? 2/01/2011 If the title hasn't scared you off yet, here's the story: I was hacking on someone else's code on the plane and trying to wrap my head around some Applicative class code; in particular the code in question used the Applicative instance for ((->) a) i.e. functions. This turned my brain to cream-of-wheat and I had to take a break. I