Alexander Solla wrote:
>
> So, the type (View view) -- ignoring class instances -- is basically
> isomorphic to this (slightly simpler) type:
>
> data View = EmptyView | TextView String | ConcatView View View |
> NestViews View View View | ...
> instance Monoid View where ...
>
> Now, consider the problem of "generic programming" on the simpler
> type: you quantify over the data constructors "generically", and in
> doing so you gain "traversals" for the type.[1] You gain the same
> things by turning View into (View view) -- a functor, a foldable
> functor, and so on. When it comes time to "render" a format for a View
> (for example, a bit of Html from Text.XHtml.Strict), I use some higher
> order functions I'm already familiar with. Something like
>
> renderXHtml :: (View view) -> Html
> renderXHtml (ConcatViews l r) = fold $ renderXHtml (ConcatViews l r)
> renderXHtml (NestViews l m r) = fold $ renderXHtml (NestViews l m r)
> renderXHtml (TextView string) = stringToHtml string
> renderXHtml (PageView v_title, v_heading, v_header, v_footer, v_contents) =
> (the_title << (renderXHtml v_title)) +++ -- (We assume
> v_title is a TextView String)
> (body << ( renderXHtml v_header ) +++
> (render_page_contents v_contents v_heading) +++
> (renderXHtml v_footer) )
> where render_page_contents contents heading = undefined
But isn't the line
renderXHtml (ConcatView l r) = fold $ renderXHtml (ConcatViews l r)
a type error? I'm assuming
Data.Foldable.fold :: (Foldable m, Monoid t) => m t -> t
being applied to the result type of renderXHtml which is Html and
not of the form m t .
Your intention reminds me of the use of type variables to get
functor-like behavior for free, like in
data RGB' a = RGB a a a -- auxiliary type constructor
type RGB = RGB' Int -- what we're interested in
instance Functor RGB' where
fmap f (RGB x y z) = RGB (f x) (f y) (f z)
mapRGB :: (Int -> Int) -> RGB -> RGB
mapRGB = fmap
but I don't quite see what you're doing with the free monad here, Alexander?
Regards,
Heinrich Apfelmus
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http://apfelmus.nfshost.com
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