Deriving Applicative sums... Idiomatically! ================================== `Idiomatically` is used with `DerivingVia` to derive `Applicative` for sum types. It takes as an argument a list of sum constructors that it uses to tweak the generic representation of a type. ```haskell {-# Language DataKinds #-} {-# Language DeriveGeneric #-} {-# Language DerivingStrategies #-} {-# Language DerivingVia #-} import Generic.Applicative data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a deriving stock Generic1 deriving (Functor, Applicative) via Idiomatically Maybe '[RightBias Terminal] ``` This comes with two tagged newtypes over [`Sum`](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base/docs/Data-Functor-Sum.html) that are biased toward the left and right constructor. ```haskell newtype LeftBias tag l r a = LeftBias (Sum l r a) newtype RightBias tag l r a = RightBias (Sum l r a) ``` ```haskell pure = LeftBias . InL . pure @l pure = RightBias . InR . pure @r ``` and an extensible language for type-level _applicative morphisms_ (`Idiom`) used to map away from the `pure` constructor. ```haskell -- Applicative morphisms preserve the `Applicative` operations -- -- idiom (pure @f a) = pure @g a -- idiom (liftA2 @f (·) as bs) = liftA2 @g (·) (idiom as) (idiom bs) -- type Idiom :: t -> (Type -> Type) -> (Type -> Type) -> Constraint class (Applicative f, Applicative g) => Idiom tag f g where idiom :: f ~> g ``` This means for `LeftBias tag l r` we map from the left-to-right and that for `RightBias tag l r` we map from right-to-left. ```haskell instance Idiom tag l r => Applicative (LeftBias tag l r) instance Idiom tag r l => Applicative (RightBias tag l r) ``` For example, the identity applicative morphism ```haskell data Id instance f ~ g => Idiom Id f g where idiom :: f ~> f idiom = id ``` can be used to derive two different instances for the same datatype by either defecting from the the left constructor (`LPure`) or from the right constructor (`RPure`). ```haskell -- >> pure @L True -- LPure True -- >> liftA2 (+) (LPure 1) (L 100) -- L 101 data L a = LPure a | L a deriving stock (Show, Generic1) deriving (Functor, Applicative) via Idiomatically L '[LeftBias Id] -- >> pure @R False -- RPure False -- >> liftA2 (+) (RPure 1) (R 100) -- R 101 data R a = R a | RPure a deriving stock (Show, Generic1) deriving (Functor, Applicative) via Idiomatically R '[RightBias Id] ``` More compliated descriptions are possible where we mediate between multiple constructors: ```haskell -- >> pure @Ok 10 -- Ok1 10 -- >> liftA2 (+) (Ok1 10) (Ok5 20) -- Ok3 [Just 30] -- >> liftA2 (+) (Ok2 [1..4]) (Ok5 20) -- Ok3 [Just 21,Just 22,Just 23,Just 24] -- >> liftA2 (+) (Ok2 [1..4]) (Ok4 Nothing) -- Ok3 [Nothing,Nothing,Nothing,Nothing] data Ok a = Ok1 a | Ok2 [a] | Ok3 [Maybe a] | Ok4 (Maybe a) | Ok5 a deriving stock (Show, Generic1) deriving (Functor, Applicative) via Idiomatically Ok '[ LeftBias Initial -- Ok1 to Ok2: pure , LeftBias Inner -- Ok2 to Ok3: fmap pure , RightBias Outer -- Ok4 to Ok3: pure , RightBias Initial -- Ok5 to Ok4: pure ] ``` Relationship to `Generically1` ----------- `Generically1` was recently introduced to `GHC.Generics` (_base 4.17.0.0_) with the ability to derive `Applicative` for generic type constructors, among other things. Before it was added to _base_ it was found in the [_generic-data_](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/generic-data-0.9.2.1/docs/Generic-Data-Internal-Generically.html#t:Generically1) package. For deriving it uses the underlying generic representation of a type; if that representation has an `Applicative` instance then `Applicative` can be derived. ```haskell import GHC.Generics (Generically1(..)) data F a = F a String a a [[[a]]] (Int -> Maybe a) deriving stock Generic1 deriving (Functor, Applicative) via Generically1 F ``` This works well for product types but it does not work for sum types since there is no `Appliative (Sum f g)` or `Applicative (f :+: g)` instance. In this sense, `Generically1` can be recovered by passing an empty list of sums to `Idiomatically`: ```haskell Generically1 F = Idiomatically F '[] ``` `Idiomatically` is also defined in terms of `Generically1`: ```haskell type Idiomatically :: (k -> Type) -> [SumKind k] -> (k -> Type) type Idiomatically f sums = Generically1 (NewSums (Served sums) f) ``` The argument to `Generically1` is less important, what is basically happening is that `NewSums` modifies the generic behaviour of `f`: it traverses the generic representation `Rep1 f` and replace every sum with an `Applicative` sum from type-level list. This means we can define `Idiomatically` in terms of `Generically1`. There is an `Applicative` instance for `Generically1` if its representation is `Applicative`, by tweaking the representation of its argument we have thus managed to configure `Generically1` even though it has no configuration parameter!