free: Monads for free

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Free monads are useful for many tree-like structures and domain specific languages.

If f is a Functor then the free Monad on f is the type of trees whose nodes are labeled with the constructors of f. The word "free" is used in the sense of "unrestricted" rather than "zero-cost": Free f makes no constraining assumptions beyond those given by f and the definition of Monad. As used here it is a standard term from the mathematical theory of adjoint functors.

Cofree comonads are dual to free monads. They provide convenient ways to talk about branching streams and rose-trees, and can be used to annotate syntax trees. The cofree comonad can be seen as a stream parameterized by a Functor that controls its branching factor.

More information on free monads, including examples, can be found in the following blog posts: http://comonad.com/reader/2008/monads-for-free/ http://comonad.com/reader/2011/free-monads-for-less/


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Dependencies base (>=4 && <5), bifunctors (>=4 && <5), comonad (>=4 && <5), distributive (>=0.2.1), mtl (>=2.0.1.0 && <2.3), prelude-extras (>=0.4 && <1), profunctors (>=4 && <5), semigroupoids (>=4 && <5), semigroups (>=0.8.3.1 && <1), template-haskell (>=2.7.0.0 && <3), transformers (>=0.2.0 && <0.5) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright Copyright (C) 2008-2013 Edward A. Kmett
Author Edward A. Kmett
Maintainer Edward A. Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com>
Category Control, Monads
Home page http://github.com/ekmett/free/
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Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/ekmett/free.git
Uploaded by EdwardKmett at 2015-03-07T05:01:20Z
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This package provides a common definitions for working with free monads, free applicatives, and cofree comonads in Haskell.

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Contributions and bug reports are welcome!

Please feel free to contact me through github or on the #haskell IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

-Edward Kmett