License | BSD-style |
---|---|
Maintainer | Vincent Hanquez <vincent@snarc.org> |
Stability | experimental |
Portability | portable |
Safe Haskell | Safe-Inferred |
Language | Haskell2010 |
A bifunctor is a type constructor that takes
two type arguments and is a functor in both arguments. That
is, unlike with Functor
, a type constructor such as Either
does not need to be partially applied for a Bifunctor
instance, and the methods in this class permit mapping
functions over the Left
value or the Right
value,
or both at the same time.
Formally, the class Bifunctor
represents a bifunctor
from Hask
-> Hask
.
Intuitively it is a bifunctor where both the first and second arguments are covariant.
You can define a Bifunctor
by either defining bimap
or by
defining both first
and second
.
Documentation
class (forall a. Functor (p a)) => Bifunctor (p :: Type -> Type -> Type) where #
A bifunctor is a type constructor that takes
two type arguments and is a functor in both arguments. That
is, unlike with Functor
, a type constructor such as Either
does not need to be partially applied for a Bifunctor
instance, and the methods in this class permit mapping
functions over the Left
value or the Right
value,
or both at the same time.
Formally, the class Bifunctor
represents a bifunctor
from Hask
-> Hask
.
Intuitively it is a bifunctor where both the first and second arguments are covariant.
You can define a Bifunctor
by either defining bimap
or by
defining both first
and second
. A partially applied Bifunctor
must be a Functor
and the second
method must agree with fmap
.
From this it follows that:
second
id
=id
If you supply bimap
, you should ensure that:
bimap
id
id
≡id
If you supply first
and second
, ensure:
first
id
≡id
second
id
≡id
If you supply both, you should also ensure:
bimap
f g ≡first
f.
second
g
These ensure by parametricity:
bimap
(f.
g) (h.
i) ≡bimap
f h.
bimap
g ifirst
(f.
g) ≡first
f.
first
gsecond
(f.
g) ≡second
f.
second
g
Since 4.18.0.0 Functor
is a superclass of 'Bifunctor.
Since: base-4.8.0.0
bimap :: (a -> b) -> (c -> d) -> p a c -> p b d #
Map over both arguments at the same time.
bimap
f g ≡first
f.
second
g
Examples
>>>
bimap toUpper (+1) ('j', 3)
('J',4)
>>>
bimap toUpper (+1) (Left 'j')
Left 'J'
>>>
bimap toUpper (+1) (Right 3)
Right 4
Instances
Bifunctor Either | Since: base-4.8.0.0 |
Bifunctor Arg | Since: base-4.9.0.0 |
Bifunctor (,) | Class laws for tuples hold only up to laziness. Both
Since: base-4.8.0.0 |
Bifunctor (Const :: Type -> Type -> Type) | Since: base-4.8.0.0 |
Bifunctor ((,,) x1) | Since: base-4.8.0.0 |
Bifunctor (K1 i :: Type -> Type -> Type) | Since: base-4.9.0.0 |
Bifunctor ((,,,) x1 x2) | Since: base-4.8.0.0 |
Bifunctor ((,,,,) x1 x2 x3) | Since: base-4.8.0.0 |
Bifunctor ((,,,,,) x1 x2 x3 x4) | Since: base-4.8.0.0 |
Bifunctor ((,,,,,,) x1 x2 x3 x4 x5) | Since: base-4.8.0.0 |