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

There are some ADTs like ZipList that can have applicative instances, but not monadic instances. This was a very helpful example for me when understanding the difference between applicatives and monads. Since so many applicatives are also monads, it's easy to not see the difference between the two without a concrete example like ZipList.