Data.Universe.Helpers

For many types, the universe should be [minBound .. maxBound]; universeDef makes it easy to make such types an instance of Universe via the snippet

instance Universe Foo where universe = universeDef

Fair n-way interleaving: given a finite number of (possibly infinite) lists, produce a single list such that whenever v has finite index in one of the input lists, v also has finite index in the output list. No list's elements occur more frequently (on average) than another's.

Unfair n-way interleaving: given a possibly infinite number of (possibly infinite) lists, produce a single list such that whenever v has finite index in an input list at finite index, v also has finite index in the output list. Elements from lists at lower index occur more frequently, but not exponentially so.

Like diagonal, but expose a tiny bit more (non-semantic) information: if you lay out the input list in two dimensions, each list in the result will be one of the diagonals of the input. In particular, each element of the output will be a list whose elements are each from a distinct input list.

Fair 2-way interleaving.

Slightly unfair 2-way Cartesian product: given two (possibly infinite) lists, produce a single list such that whenever v and w have finite indices in the input lists, (v,w) has finite index in the output list. Lower indices occur as the fst part of the tuple more frequently, but not exponentially so.

A +*+ with application.

cartesianProduct ($)

Slightly unfair n-way Cartesian product: given a finite number of (possibly infinite) lists, produce a single list such that whenever vi has finite index in list i for each i, [v1, ..., vn] has finite index in the output list.

Some times you need to change the tag you have lying around. Idiomatic usage is to make a new combinator for the relationship between the tags that you want to enforce, and define that combinator using retag.

data Succ n
retagSucc :: Tagged n a -> Tagged (Succ n) a
retagSucc = retag

A Tagged s b value is a value b with an attached phantom type s. This can be used in place of the more traditional but less safe idiom of passing in an undefined value with the type, because unlike an (s -> b), a Tagged s b can't try to use the argument s as a real value.

Moreover, you don't have to rely on the compiler to inline away the extra argument, because the newtype is "free"

Tagged has kind k -> * -> * if the compiler supports PolyKinds, therefore there is an extra k showing in the instance haddocks that may cause confusion.

Natural number

Invariant: numbers <= 0xffffffffffffffff use the NS constructor

Very unfair 2-way Cartesian product: same guarantee as the slightly unfair one, except that lower indices may occur as the fst part of the tuple exponentially more frequently.

Very unfair n-way Cartesian product: same guarantee as the slightly unfair one, but not as good in the same sense that the very unfair 2-way product is worse than the slightly unfair 2-way product.