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 && <5), bifunctors (>=5.5.9 && <6), comonad (>=5.0.8 && <6), containers (>=0.3 && <0.7), distributive (>=0.5.2 && <1), exceptions (>=0.10.4 && <0.11), fail (>=4.9 && <4.10), indexed-traversable (>=0.1.1 && <0.2), mtl (>=2.1.3.1 && <2.4), profunctors (>=5.2.2 && <5.3 || >=5.6.1 && <6), semigroupoids (>=5.3.5 && <6), semigroups (>=0.18.5 && <1), template-haskell (>=2.7.0.0 && <2.19), th-abstraction (>=0.4.2.0 && <0.5), transformers (>=0.3 && <0.7), transformers-base (>=0.4.5.2 && <0.5), transformers-compat (>=0.5.1.0 && <0.8) [details] |
| Tested with | ghc ==7.4.2, ghc ==7.6.3, ghc ==7.8.4, ghc ==7.10.3, ghc ==8.0.2, ghc ==8.2.2, ghc ==8.4.4, ghc ==8.6.5, ghc ==8.8.4, ghc ==8.10.7, ghc ==9.0.2, ghc ==9.2.2 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | Copyright (C) 2008-2015 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 ryanglscott at 2022-05-07T23:04:20Z |
| Distributions | Arch:5.1.10, Debian:5.1.3, Fedora:5.1.10, FreeBSD:4.12.1, LTSHaskell:5.2, NixOS:5.2, Stackage:5.2, openSUSE:5.2 |
| Reverse Dependencies | 204 direct, 8020 indirect [details] |
| Downloads | 259396 total (514 in the last 30 days) |
| Rating | 2.5 (votes: 5) [estimated by Bayesian average] |
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| Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2022-05-08 [all 1 reports] |
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This package provides a common definitions for working with free monads, free applicatives, and cofree comonads in Haskell.
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Contributions and bug reports are welcome!
Please feel free to contact me through github or on the #haskell IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
-Edward Kmett