distributive-0.4.4: Distributive functors -- Dual to Traversable

Portabilityportable
Stabilityprovisional
MaintainerEdward Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com>
Safe HaskellSafe-Inferred

Data.Distributive

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Synopsis

Documentation

class Functor g => Distributive g whereSource

This is the categorical dual of Traversable.

Due to the lack of non-trivial comonoids in Haskell, we can restrict ourselves to requiring a Functor rather than some Coapplicative class. Categorically every Distributive functor is actually a right adjoint, and so it must be Representable endofunctor and preserve all limits. This is a fancy way of saying it isomorphic to `(->) x` for some x.

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.

Methods

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

The dual of sequenceA

>>> distribute [(+1),(+2)] 1
[2,3]
distribute = collect id

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

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

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

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

The dual of traverse

cotraverse f = fmap f . distribute

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

The dual of mapM

comapM f = fmap f . distributeM