On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Dan Doel
But we've so far not been able to find a way of merely annotating the original into working. So, I was wondering if any of the more knowledgeable folks here could illuminate what's going wrong here, and whether I should expect my original code to work or not.
I'll bet the problem has to do with the fact that "f" only appears in
"Nest n f a", so the type checker can't figure out what "f" is.
Here are two other variants that work.
deepFMap :: Functor f => Nat n -> (a -> b) -> Nest n f a -> Nest n f b
deepFMap Z f = fmap f
deepFMap (S n) f = deepFMapS n f
deepFMapS :: Functor f => Nat n -> (a -> b) -> f (Nest n f a) -> f (Nest n f b)
deepFMapS Z f = fmap (fmap f)
deepFMapS (S n) f = fmap (deepFMapS n f)
-- alternative:
-- deepFMapS (S n) f = fmap (deepFMap (S n) f)
type family Nest' n (f :: * -> *) a :: *
type instance Nest' Z f a = a
type instance Nest' (S n) f a = f (Nest' n f a)
deepFMap' :: Functor f => Nat n -> (a -> b) -> f (Nest' n f a) -> f
(Nest' n f b)
deepFMap' Z f = fmap f
deepFMap' (S n) f = fmap (deepFMap' n f)
--
Dave Menendez