EPISODE · Jul 3, 2021 · 13 MIN
Decomposing datatypes into functors
from Iowa Type Theory Commute · host Aaron Stump
This episode continues the discussion of Swierstra's paper "Datatypes à la Carte", explaining how we can decompose a datatype into the application of a fixed-point type constructor and then a functor. The functor itself can be assembled from other functors for pieces of the datatype. This makes modular datatypes possible.
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This episode continues the discussion of Swierstra's paper "Datatypes à la Carte", explaining how we can decompose a datatype into the application of a fixed-point type constructor and then a functor. The functor itself can be assembled from other functors for pieces of the datatype. This makes modular datatypes possible.
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