distributive-0.2.2: Haskell 98 Distributive functors -- Dual to Traversable

Copyright(C) 2011 Edward Kmett
LicenseBSD-style (see the file LICENSE)
MaintainerEdward Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com>
Stabilityprovisional
Portabilityportable
Safe HaskellSafe-Inferred
LanguageHaskell98

Data.Distributive

Description

 

Synopsis

Documentation

class Functor g => Distributive g where

This is the categorical dual of Traversable. However, there appears to be little benefit to allow the distribution via an arbitrary comonad so we restrict ourselves to Functor.

Minimal complete definition: distribute or collect

To be distributable a container will need to have a way to consistently zip a potentially infinite number of copies of itself. This effectively means that the holes in all values of that type, must have the same cardinality, fixed sized vectors, infinite streams, functions, etc. and no extra information to try to merge together.

Minimal complete definition

Nothing

Methods

distribute :: Functor f => f (g a) -> g (f a)

The dual of sequence

distribute = collect id

collect :: Functor f => (a -> g b) -> f a -> g (f b)

collect = distribute . fmap f

distributeM :: Monad m => m (g a) -> g (m a)

distributeM = fmap unwrapMonad . distribute . WrapMonad

collectM :: Monad m => (a -> g b) -> m a -> g (m b)

collectM = distributeM . liftM f

cotraverse :: (Functor f, Distributive g) => (f a -> b) -> f (g a) -> g b

comapM :: (Monad m, Distributive g) => (m a -> b) -> m (g a) -> g b