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Replace the target of a Lens or all of the targets of a Setter or Traversal in our monadic state with a new value, irrespective of the old.

This is an infix version of assign.

>>> execState (do _1 .= c; _2 .= d) (a,b)
(c,d)

>>> execState (both .= c) (a,b)
(c,c)

(.=) :: MonadState s m => Iso' s a       -> a -> m ()
(.=) :: MonadState s m => Lens' s a      -> a -> m ()
(.=) :: MonadState s m => Traversal' s a -> a -> m ()
(.=) :: MonadState s m => Setter' s a    -> a -> m ()

It puts the state in the monad or it gets the hose again.

Replace the target of a Lens or all of the targets of a Setter or Traversal in our monadic state with a new value, irrespective of the old.

This is an alias for (.=).

>>> execState (do assign _1 c; assign _2 d) (a,b)
(c,d)

>>> execState (both .= c) (a,b)
(c,c)

assign :: MonadState s m => Iso' s a       -> a -> m ()
assign :: MonadState s m => Lens' s a      -> a -> m ()
assign :: MonadState s m => Traversal' s a -> a -> m ()
assign :: MonadState s m => Setter' s a    -> a -> m ()

View the value pointed to by a Getter, Iso or Lens or the result of folding over all the results of a Fold or Traversal that points at a monoidal value.

view . to ≡ id

>>> view (to f) a
f a

>>> view _2 (1,"hello")
"hello"

>>> view (to succ) 5
6

>>> view (_2._1) ("hello",("world","!!!"))
"world"

As view is commonly used to access the target of a Getter or obtain a monoidal summary of the targets of a Fold, It may be useful to think of it as having one of these more restricted signatures:

view ::             Getter s a     -> s -> a
view :: Monoid m => Fold s m       -> s -> m
view ::             Iso' s a       -> s -> a
view ::             Lens' s a      -> s -> a
view :: Monoid m => Traversal' s m -> s -> m

In a more general setting, such as when working with a Monad transformer stack you can use:

view :: MonadReader s m             => Getter s a     -> m a
view :: (MonadReader s m, Monoid a) => Fold s a       -> m a
view :: MonadReader s m             => Iso' s a       -> m a
view :: MonadReader s m             => Lens' s a      -> m a
view :: (MonadReader s m, Monoid a) => Traversal' s a -> m a

View the value pointed to by a Getter or Lens or the result of folding over all the results of a Fold or Traversal that points at a monoidal values.

This is the same operation as view with the arguments flipped.

The fixity and semantics are such that subsequent field accesses can be performed with (.).

>>> (a,b)^._2
b

>>> ("hello","world")^._2
"world"

>>> import Data.Complex
>>> ((0, 1 :+ 2), 3)^._1._2.to magnitude
2.23606797749979

(^.) ::             s -> Getter s a     -> a
(^.) :: Monoid m => s -> Fold s m       -> m
(^.) ::             s -> Iso' s a       -> a
(^.) ::             s -> Lens' s a      -> a
(^.) :: Monoid m => s -> Traversal' s m -> m