free: Monads for free
Free monads are useful for many tree-like structures and domain specific languages.
If f
is a Functor
then the free Monad
on f
is the type
of trees whose nodes are labeled with the constructors of f
. The word
"free" is used in the sense of "unrestricted" rather than "zero-cost":
Free f
makes no constraining assumptions beyond those given by f
and the
definition of Monad
. As used here it is a standard term from the
mathematical theory of adjoint functors.
Cofree comonads are dual to free monads. They provide convenient ways to talk
about branching streams and rose-trees, and can be used to annotate syntax
trees. The cofree comonad can be seen as a stream parameterized by a Functor
that controls its branching factor.
More information on free monads, including examples, can be found in the following blog posts: http://comonad.com/reader/2008/monads-for-free/ http://comonad.com/reader/2011/free-monads-for-less/
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Change log | CHANGELOG.markdown |
Dependencies | base (>=4 && <5), bifunctors (>=4 && <5), comonad (>=4 && <5), distributive (>=0.2.1), mtl (>=2.0.1.0 && <2.3), prelude-extras (>=0.4 && <1), profunctors (>=4 && <5), semigroupoids (>=4 && <5), semigroups (>=0.8.3.1 && <1), template-haskell (>=2.7.0.0 && <3), transformers (>=0.2.0 && <0.5) [details] |
License | BSD-3-Clause |
Copyright | Copyright (C) 2008-2013 Edward A. Kmett |
Author | Edward A. Kmett |
Maintainer | Edward A. Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com> |
Category | Control, Monads |
Home page | http://github.com/ekmett/free/ |
Bug tracker | http://github.com/ekmett/free/issues |
Source repo | head: git clone git://github.com/ekmett/free.git |
Uploaded | by EdwardKmett at 2015-03-07T05:01:20Z |
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