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Definition of "functor"; Haskell vs. C++
I'm trying to understand whether the Haskell and C++ communities mean different things by the word "functor", or if there's some underlying concept that unifies the two meanings.
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What's the proper term for a function inverse to a constructor - to unwrap a value from a data type?
Edit: I'm rephrasing the question a bit. Apparently I caused some confusion because I didn't realize that the term destructor is used in OOP for something quite different - it's a function invoked ...
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