Control.Comonad

There are two ways to define a comonad:

I. Provide definitions for extract and extend satisfying these laws:

extend extract      = id
extract . extend f  = f
extend f . extend g = extend (f . extend g)

In this case, you may simply set fmap = liftW.

These laws are directly analogous to the laws for monads and perhaps can be made clearer by viewing them as laws stating that Cokleisli composition must be associative, and has extract for a unit:

f =>= extract   = f
extract =>= f   = f
(f =>= g) =>= h = f =>= (g =>= h)

II. Alternately, you may choose to provide definitions for fmap, extract, and duplicate satisfying these laws:

extract . duplicate      = id
fmap extract . duplicate = id
duplicate . duplicate    = fmap duplicate . duplicate

In this case you may not rely on the ability to define fmap in terms of liftW.

You may of course, choose to define both duplicate and extend. In that case you must also satisfy these laws:

extend f  = fmap f . duplicate
duplicate = extend id
fmap f    = extend (f . extract)

These are the default definitions of extend and duplicate and the definition of liftW respectively.

A suitable default definition for fmap for a Comonad. Promotes a function to a comonad.

You can only safely use liftW to define fmap if your Comonad defines extend, not just duplicate, since defining extend in terms of duplicate uses fmap!

fmap f = liftW f = extend (f . extract)

Comonadic fixed point à la David Menendez

Comonadic fixed point à la Dominic Orchard

Comonadic fixed point à la Kenneth Foner:

This is the evaluate function from his "Getting a Quick Fix on Comonads" talk.

Left-to-right Cokleisli composition

Right-to-left Cokleisli composition

extend in operator form

extend with the arguments swapped. Dual to >>= for a Monad.

ComonadApply is to Comonad like Applicative is to Monad.

Mathematically, it is a strong lax symmetric semi-monoidal comonad on the category Hask of Haskell types. That it to say that w is a strong lax symmetric semi-monoidal functor on Hask, where both extract and duplicate are symmetric monoidal natural transformations.

Laws:

(.) <$> u <@> v <@> w = u <@> (v <@> w)
extract (p <@> q) = extract p (extract q)
duplicate (p <@> q) = (<@>) <$> duplicate p <@> duplicate q

If our type is both a ComonadApply and Applicative we further require

(<*>) = (<@>)

Finally, if you choose to define (<@) and (@>), the results of your definitions should match the following laws:

a @> b = const id <$> a <@> b
a <@ b = const <$> a <@> b

A variant of <@> with the arguments reversed.

Lift a binary function into a Comonad with zipping

Lift a ternary function into a Comonad with zipping

The Cokleisli Arrows of a given Comonad

A type f is a Functor if it provides a function fmap which, given any types a and b lets you apply any function from (a -> b) to turn an f a into an f b, preserving the structure of f. Furthermore f needs to adhere to the following:

Identity

fmap id == id

Composition

fmap (f . g) == fmap f . fmap g

Note, that the second law follows from the free theorem of the type fmap and the first law, so you need only check that the former condition holds. See these articles by School of Haskell or David Luposchainsky for an explanation.

An infix synonym for fmap.

The name of this operator is an allusion to Prelude.$. Note the similarities between their types:

 ($)  ::              (a -> b) ->   a ->   b
(<$>) :: Functor f => (a -> b) -> f a -> f b

Whereas Prelude.$ is function application, <$> is function application lifted over a Functor.

Examples

Convert from a Maybe Int to a Maybe String using show:

>>> show <$> NothingNothing

>>> show <$> Just 3Just "3"

Convert from an Either Int Int to an Either Int String using show:

>>> show <$> Left 17Left 17

>>> show <$> Right 17Right "17"

Double each element of a list:

>>> (*2) <$> [1,2,3][2,4,6]

Apply even to the second element of a pair:

>>> even <$> (2,2)(2,True)

Flipped version of <$.

Examples

Replace the contents of a Maybe Int with a constant String:

>>> Nothing $> "foo"Nothing

>>> Just 90210 $> "foo"Just "foo"

Replace the contents of an Either Int Int with a constant String, resulting in an Either Int String:

>>> Left 8675309 $> "foo"Left 8675309

>>> Right 8675309 $> "foo"Right "foo"

Replace each element of a list with a constant String:

>>> [1,2,3] $> "foo"["foo","foo","foo"]

Replace the second element of a pair with a constant String:

>>> (1,2) $> "foo"(1,"foo")