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Feature: improve ergonomics of identity checks

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#26 opened on Apr 25, 2022

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Description

In addition to things like IO.is(x) to determine if x is an IO monad instance, we can add Symbol.hasInstance to all the monad definitions so that a more ergonomic x isntanceof IO check will work properly.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Symbol/hasInstance

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Implement Symbol.hasInstance static method on each monad class (e.g., IO, Maybe, Either) to return true if the argument is an instance of that monad. Follow the pattern from MDN documentation.
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JavaScriptSymbol.hasInstance
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