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acme-cofunctor
A Cofunctor
is a structure from category theory dual to Functor
.
We all know that a Functor
is defined by the operation 'fmap':
fmap :: (a -> b) -> (f a -> f b)
This means that its dual must be defined by the following operation:
cofmap :: (b -> a) -> (f b -> f a)
Since beginning his investigations, the author of this package has discovered
that this pattern is at least as commonly used as Functor
. In fact, many
ubiquitous Haskell types (e.g. []
, Maybe
, ((->) a)
turn out to have a
Cofunctor
instance.