What are practical uses of applicative style?

Question

I am a Scala programmer, learning Haskell now. It\'s easy to find practical use cases and real world examples for OO concepts, such as decorators, strategy pattern etc. Books an

Answer 1

I finally understood how applicatives can help in day-to-day programming with that presentation:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100818221025/http://applicative-errors-scala.googlecode.com/svn/artifacts/0.6/chunk-html/index.html

The autor shows how applicatives can help for combining validations and handling failures.

The presentation is in Scala, but the author also provides the full code example for Haskell, Java and C#.