Control.Alt
- Package
- purescript-control
- Repository
- purescript/purescript-control
#Alt Source
class (Functor f) <= Alt f where
The Alt
type class identifies an associative operation on a type
constructor. It is similar to Semigroup
, except that it applies to
types of kind * -> *
, like Array
or List
, rather than concrete types
String
or Number
.
Alt
instances are required to satisfy the following laws:
- Associativity:
(x <|> y) <|> z == x <|> (y <|> z)
- Distributivity:
f <$> (x <|> y) == (f <$> x) <|> (f <$> y)
For example, the Array
([]
) type is an instance of Alt
, where
(<|>)
is defined to be concatenation.
Members
alt :: forall a. f a -> f a -> f a
Instances
Re-exports from Data.Functor
#Functor Source
class Functor f where
A Functor
is a type constructor which supports a mapping operation
map
.
map
can be used to turn functions a -> b
into functions
f a -> f b
whose argument and return types use the type constructor f
to represent some computational context.
Instances must satisfy the following laws:
- Identity:
map id = id
- Composition:
map (f <<< g) = map f <<< map g
Members
map :: forall b a. (a -> b) -> f a -> f b
Instances
#void Source
void :: forall a f. Functor f => f a -> f Unit
The void
function is used to ignore the type wrapped by a
Functor
, replacing it with Unit
and keeping only the type
information provided by the type constructor itself.
void
is often useful when using do
notation to change the return type
of a monadic computation:
main = forE 1 10 \n -> void do
print n
print (n * n)