Re: [Haskell-cafe] Unit and pair

To expand on that, this class basically allows you to prove your relation cholds pointwise across arbitrary binary trees, represented by nested tuples and terminated by ()s. If individual instances of the class had additional ways of constructing values (i.e., proving the relation for the two type parameters), then your trees could contain other types. For example, if you had another type data Iso a b = Iso (a -> b) (b -> a) -- the functions must be inverses you could write an instance of Something for Iso and build a proof that ((), (a, ((), b)) is isomorphic to ((), (c, ((), d)) given Iso a c and Iso b dusing your class. I'm not sure I'd bundle the two parts together, but I'd call your pairmethod (or the class it lives in) something like congruent or ProductsRespectThisRelation :) Dan On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote:

FullBinaryTreeRelation? :P

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:36 PM, MigMit wrote:

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Hi café, a quick question.

Is there a somewhat standard class like this:

class Something c where unit :: c () () pair :: c x y -> c u v -> c (x, u) (y, v)

?

I'm using it heavily in my current project, but I don't want to repeat somebody else's work, and it seems general enough to be defined somewhere; but my quick search on Hackage didn't reveal anything.

I know about arrows; this, however, is something more general, and it's instances aren't always arrows. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe