Traverse
Traversable data structures with applicative functors
Install / Use
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traverse: Traversable data structures with applicative functors
This library provides:
- a module signature
Traverse.Applicative.Sfor applicative functors [McBride and Patterson, 2008], - two functions
Traverse.listandTraverse.seqto traverse lists and sequences by a given applicative functor and with a given arity, - many instances of applicative functors:
Traverse.Applicative.{iter, map, reduce, env, fold, pair, forall, exists, option, result, list}.
The purpose of this library is to provide a common dictionary of
"visitors", which is orthogonal to the visited data structure. For
instance, Traverse.list Traverse.Applicative.iter (S O) is
equivalent to List.iter, Traverse.list Traverse.Applicative.map (S (S O)) is equivalent to List.map2, etc. Moreover, one can get a
visitor which combine, for instance, both List.map and
List.fold_left by invoking Traverse.list Traverse.Applicative.(pair map fold). To get the same visitors for a sequence ('a Seq.t), one
just have to replace Traverse.list by Traverse.seq, and it is easy
to define a traversal for any algebraic data structures.
