Control.Category.Monoidal

A Monoidal category is a category with an associated biendofunctor that has an identity, which satisfies Mac Lane''s pentagonal and triangular coherence conditions Technically we usually say that category is Monoidal, but since most interesting categories in our world have multiple candidate bifunctors that you can use to enrich their structure, we choose here to think of the bifunctor as being monoidal. This lets us reuse the same Bifunctor over different categories without painful newtype wrapping.

Documentation

class Associative k p => Monoidal k p where

Denotes that we have some reasonable notion of Identity for a particular Bifunctor in this Category. This notion is currently used by both Monoidal and Comonoidal

A monoidal category. idl and idr are traditionally denoted lambda and rho the triangle identities hold:

 first idr = second idl . associate
 second idl = first idr . associate
 first idr = disassociate . second idl
 second idl = disassociate . first idr
 idr . coidr = id
 idl . coidl = id
 coidl . idl = id
 coidr . idr = id

Associated Types

type Id k p :: *

Methods

idl :: k (p (Id k p) a) a

idr :: k (p a (Id k p)) a

coidl :: k a (p (Id k p) a)

coidr :: k a (p a (Id k p))

Instances

Monoidal (->) Either

Monoidal (->) (,)