Module

Data.NaturalTransformation

Package
purescript-prelude
Repository
purescript/purescript-prelude

#NaturalTransformation Source

type NaturalTransformation f g = forall a. f a -> g a

A type for natural transformations.

A natural transformation is a mapping between type constructors of kind * -> * where the mapping operation has no ability to manipulate the inner values.

An example of this is the fromFoldable function provided in purescript-lists, where some foldable structure containing values of type a is converted into a List a.

The definition of a natural transformation in category theory states that f and g should be functors, but the Functor constraint is not enforced here; that the types are of kind * -> * is enough for our purposes.

#type (~>) Source

Operator alias for Data.NaturalTransformation.NaturalTransformation (right-associative / precedence 4)