[Haskell-cafe] Higher order functor package?

7 Jul 2017

      Consider the illustrative code below:

{-# LANGUAGE GADTs #-}
{-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-}
{-# LANGUAGE KindSignatures #-}
{-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}
{-# LANGUAGE PolyKinds #-}
{-# LANGUAGE StandaloneDeriving #-}
{-# LANGUAGE UndecidableInstances #-}

data Param = Param1 | Param2

data T (p :: Param) where
  TInt :: Int -> T Param1
  TInteger :: Integer -> T Param1
  TBool :: Bool -> T Param2

data U (p :: Param) where
  UDouble :: Double -> U Param1
  UString :: String -> U Param2

data F (t :: Param -> *) where
  F :: t Param1 -> t Param2 -> F t

f :: T a -> U a
f (TInt x) = UDouble (fromIntegral x)
f (TInteger x) = UDouble (fromIntegral x)
f (TBool x) = UString (show x)

class MyFunctor f where
  myFmap :: (forall a. t a -> u a) -> f t -> f u

instance MyFunctor F where
  myFmap f (F x1 x2) = F (f x1) (f x2)

deriving instance Show (U a)
deriving instance (Show (t Param1), Show (t Param2)) => Show (F t)

main = print $ myFmap f (F (TInt 42) (TBool False))

Basically this is a sort of "higher order" functor, but I can't seem to fit
it into an ordinary functor.

But it seems like I'm reinventing the wheel, as my code is suspiciously
like `Functor` but only slightly different.

Has this sort of class already been created and if so what package is it in?

[Haskell-cafe] Higher order functor package?

Clinton Mead