Copyright | (C) 2013 Edward Kmett |
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License | BSD-style (see the file LICENSE) |
Maintainer | Edward Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com> |
Stability | provisional |
Portability | MPTCs, fundeps |
Safe Haskell | Safe |
Language | Haskell2010 |
Based on Capretta's Iterative Monad Transformer
Unlike Free
, this is a true monad transformer.
Synopsis
- newtype IterT m a = IterT {}
- type Iter = IterT Identity
- iter :: Either a (Iter a) -> Iter a
- runIter :: Iter a -> Either a (Iter a)
- delay :: (Monad f, MonadFree f m) => m a -> m a
- hoistIterT :: Monad n => (forall a. m a -> n a) -> IterT m b -> IterT n b
- liftIter :: Monad m => Iter a -> IterT m a
- cutoff :: Monad m => Integer -> IterT m a -> IterT m (Maybe a)
- never :: (Monad f, MonadFree f m) => m a
- untilJust :: Monad m => m (Maybe a) -> IterT m a
- interleave :: Monad m => [IterT m a] -> IterT m [a]
- interleave_ :: Monad m => [IterT m a] -> IterT m ()
- retract :: Monad m => IterT m a -> m a
- fold :: Monad m => (m a -> a) -> IterT m a -> a
- foldM :: (Monad m, Monad n) => (m (n a) -> n a) -> IterT m a -> n a
- class Monad m => MonadFree f m | m -> f where
- wrap :: f (m a) -> m a
Documentation
Functions in Haskell are meant to be pure. For example, if an expression has type Int, there should exist a value of the type such that the expression can be replaced by that value in any context without changing the meaning of the program.
Some computations may perform side effects (unsafePerformIO
), throw an
exception (using error
); or not terminate
(let infinity = 1 + infinity in infinity
).
While the IO
monad encapsulates side-effects, and the Either
monad encapsulates errors, the Iter
monad encapsulates
non-termination. The IterT
transformer generalizes non-termination to any monadic
computation.
Computations in IterT
(or Iter
) can be composed in two ways:
- Sequential: Using the
Monad
instance, the result of a computation can be fed into the next. - Parallel: Using the
MonadPlus
instance, several computations can be executed concurrently, and the first to finish will prevail. See also the cabbage example.
The iterative monad transformer
Instances
Capretta's iterative monad
iter :: Either a (Iter a) -> Iter a Source #
Builds an iterative computation from one first step.
runIter . iter == id
runIter :: Iter a -> Either a (Iter a) Source #
Executes the first step of an iterative computation
iter . runIter == id
Combinators
delay :: (Monad f, MonadFree f m) => m a -> m a Source #
Adds an extra layer to a free monad value.
In particular, for the iterative monad Iter
, this makes the
computation require one more step, without changing its final
result.
runIter (delay ma) == Right ma
cutoff :: Monad m => Integer -> IterT m a -> IterT m (Maybe a) Source #
Cuts off an iterative computation after a given number of steps. If the number of steps is 0 or less, no computation nor monadic effects will take place.
The step where the final value is produced also counts towards the limit.
Some examples (n ≥ 0
):
cutoff
0 _ ≡return
Nothing
cutoff
(n+1).
return
≡return
.
Just
cutoff
(n+1).
lift
≡lift
.
liftM
Just
cutoff
(n+1).
delay
≡delay
.cutoff
ncutoff
nnever
≡iterate
delay
(return
Nothing
)!!
n
Calling
is always terminating, provided each of the
steps in the iteration is terminating.retract
.
cutoff
n
untilJust :: Monad m => m (Maybe a) -> IterT m a Source #
Repeatedly run a computation until it produces a Just
value.
This can be useful when paired with a monad that has side effects.
For example, we may have genId :: IO (Maybe Id)
that uses a random
number generator to allocate ids, but fails if it finds a collision.
We can repeatedly run this with
retract
(untilJust
genId) :: IO Id
interleave :: Monad m => [IterT m a] -> IterT m [a] Source #
Interleaves the steps of a finite list of iterative computations, and collects their results.
The resulting computation has as many steps as the longest computation in the list.
interleave_ :: Monad m => [IterT m a] -> IterT m () Source #
Interleaves the steps of a finite list of computations, and discards their results.
The resulting computation has as many steps as the longest computation in the list.
Equivalent to
.void
.
interleave
Consuming iterative monads
foldM :: (Monad m, Monad n) => (m (n a) -> n a) -> IterT m a -> n a Source #
Like fold
with monadic result.
IterT ~ FreeT Identity
class Monad m => MonadFree f m | m -> f where Source #
Monads provide substitution (fmap
) and renormalization (join
):
m>>=
f =join
(fmap
f m)
A free Monad
is one that does no work during the normalization step beyond simply grafting the two monadic values together.
[]
is not a free Monad
(in this sense) because
smashes the lists flat.join
[[a]]
On the other hand, consider:
data Tree a = Bin (Tree a) (Tree a) | Tip a
instanceMonad
Tree wherereturn
= Tip Tip a>>=
f = f a Bin l r>>=
f = Bin (l>>=
f) (r>>=
f)
This Monad
is the free Monad
of Pair:
data Pair a = Pair a a
And we could make an instance of MonadFree
for it directly:
instanceMonadFree
Pair Tree wherewrap
(Pair l r) = Bin l r
Or we could choose to program with
instead of Free
PairTree
and thereby avoid having to define our own Monad
instance.
Moreover, Control.Monad.Free.Church provides a MonadFree
instance that can improve the asymptotic complexity of code that
constructs free monads by effectively reassociating the use of
(>>=
). You may also want to take a look at the kan-extensions
package (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/kan-extensions).
See Free
for a more formal definition of the free Monad
for a Functor
.
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