dlist-0.5: Differences lists

Portabilityportable (Haskell 98)
Stabilityexperimental
Maintainerdons@cse.unsw.edu.au
Safe HaskellSafe-Infered

Data.DList

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Description

Difference lists: a data structure for O(1) append on lists.

Synopsis

Documentation

newtype DList a Source

A difference list is a function that given a list, returns the original contents of the difference list prepended at the given list

This structure supports O(1) append and snoc operations on lists, making it very useful for append-heavy uses, such as logging and pretty printing.

For example, using DList as the state type when printing a tree with the Writer monad

 import Control.Monad.Writer
 import Data.DList
 
 data Tree a = Leaf a | Branch (Tree a) (Tree a)

 flatten_writer :: Tree x -> DList x
 flatten_writer = snd . runWriter . flatten
     where
       flatten (Leaf x)     = tell (singleton x)
       flatten (Branch x y) = flatten x >> flatten y

Constructors

DL 

Fields

unDL :: [a] -> [a]
 

Construction

fromList :: [a] -> DList aSource

Converting a normal list to a dlist

toList :: DList a -> [a]Source

Converting a dlist back to a normal list

Basic functions

empty :: DList aSource

Create a difference list containing no elements

singleton :: a -> DList aSource

Create difference list with given single element

cons :: a -> DList a -> DList aSource

O(1), Prepend a single element to a difference list

snoc :: DList a -> a -> DList aSource

O(1), Append a single element at a difference list

append :: DList a -> DList a -> DList aSource

O(1), Appending difference lists

concat :: [DList a] -> DList aSource

O(spine), Concatenate difference lists

replicate :: Int -> a -> DList aSource

O(n), Create a difference list of the given number of elements

list :: b -> (a -> DList a -> b) -> DList a -> bSource

O(length dl), List elimination, head, tail.

head :: DList a -> aSource

Return the head of the list

tail :: DList a -> DList aSource

Return the tail of the list

unfoldr :: (b -> Maybe (a, b)) -> b -> DList aSource

Unfoldr for difference lists

foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> DList a -> bSource

Foldr over difference lists

map :: (a -> b) -> DList a -> DList bSource

Map over difference lists.

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