| Copyright | (C) 2008-2014 Edward Kmett, |
|---|---|
| License | BSD-style (see the file LICENSE) |
| Maintainer | libraries@haskell.org |
| Stability | provisional |
| Portability | portable |
| Safe Haskell | Safe |
| Language | Haskell2010 |
Data.Bifunctor
Description
Since: 4.8.0.0
Documentation
class Bifunctor p where
Formally, the class Bifunctor represents a bifunctor
from Hask -> Hask.
Intuitively it is a bifunctor where both the first and second arguments are covariant.
You can define a Bifunctor by either defining bimap or by
defining both first and second.
If you supply bimap, you should ensure that:
bimapidid≡id
If you supply first and second, ensure:
firstid≡idsecondid≡id
If you supply both, you should also ensure:
bimapf g ≡firstf.secondg
These ensure by parametricity:
bimap(f.g) (h.i) ≡bimapf h.bimapg ifirst(f.g) ≡firstf.firstgsecond(f.g) ≡secondf.secondg
Since: 4.8.0.0