semigroupoids: Semigroupoids: Category sans id

[ bsd2, comonads, control, library ] [ Propose Tags ]

Provides a wide array of (semi)groupoids and operations for working with them.

A Semigroupoid is a Category without the requirement of identity arrows for every object in the category.

A Category is any Semigroupoid for which the Yoneda lemma holds.

When working with comonads you often have the <*> portion of an Applicative, but not the pure. This was captured in Uustalu and Vene's "Essence of Dataflow Programming" in the form of the ComonadZip class in the days before Applicative. Apply provides a weaker invariant, but for the comonads used for data flow programming (found in the streams package), this invariant is preserved. Applicative function composition forms a semigroupoid.

Similarly many structures are nearly a comonad, but not quite, for instance lists provide a reasonable extend operation in the form of tails, but do not always contain a value.

Ideally the following relationships would hold:

Foldable ----> Traversable <--- Functor ------> Alt ---------> Plus           Semigroupoid
     |               |            |                              |                  |
     v               v            v                              v                  v
Foldable1 ---> Traversable1     Apply --------> Applicative -> Alternative      Category
                                  |               |              |                  |
                                  v               v              v                  v
                                Bind ---------> Monad -------> MonadPlus          Arrow

Apply, Bind, and Extend (not shown) give rise the Static, Kleisli and Cokleisli semigroupoids respectively.

This lets us remove many of the restrictions from various monad transformers as in many cases the binding operation or <*> operation does not require them.

Finally, to work with these weaker structures it is beneficial to have containers that can provide stronger guarantees about their contents, so versions of Traversable and Foldable that can be folded with just a Semigroup are added.


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Dependencies base (>=4 && <4.11), base-orphans (>=0.3 && <1), bifunctors (>=5 && <6), comonad (>=4.2.6 && <6), containers (>=0.3 && <0.6), contravariant (>=0.2.0.1 && <2), distributive (>=0.2.2 && <1), semigroups (>=0.8.3.1 && <1), tagged (>=0.8.5 && <1), transformers (>=0.2 && <0.6), transformers-compat (>=0.3 && <0.6) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Edward A. Kmett
Author Edward A. Kmett
Maintainer Edward A. Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com>
Revised Revision 3 made by ryanglscott at 2019-05-08T13:16:58Z
Category Control, Comonads
Home page http://github.com/ekmett/semigroupoids
Bug tracker http://github.com/ekmett/semigroupoids/issues
Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/ekmett/semigroupoids.git
Uploaded by EdwardKmett at 2016-01-16T22:08:20Z
Distributions Arch:5.3.7, Debian:5.3.4, Fedora:5.3.7, FreeBSD:5.0.0.3, LTSHaskell:6.0.0.1, NixOS:6.0.0.1, Stackage:6.0.0.1, openSUSE:6.0.0.1
Reverse Dependencies 203 direct, 8218 indirect [details]
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A semigroupoid is a Category without id.

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-Edward Kmett