Chances are that you won't be able to learn FRP before you learn idiomatic Haskell. :-) Have a look at Paul Hudak's book [The Haskell School of Expression][1], which introduces both Haskell and FRP (as "Functional Animation Language").

  [1]: http://plucky.cs.yale.edu/soe/index.htm

> The specific meaning and utility of the combinators in the reactive-banana library will be explained subsequently

Yes, please! As a relative newbie at Haskell, I find FRP to be both intriguing and hard to approach.

&gt; The specific meaning and utility of the combinators in the reactive-banana library will be explained subsequently

Yes, please! As a relative newbie at Haskell, I find FRP to be both intriguing and hard to approach.

Introduction to FRP - Why Applicative Functors?