Proposal: Add Compositor class as superclass of Arrow

Philippa Cowderoy flippa at flippac.org
Sun Oct 21 15:30:31 EDT 2007


On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Twan van Laarhoven wrote:

> Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> > 3. There might be another useful class that's a subclass of Category and
> > a superclass of Arrow, that essentially includes first but not arr. If
> > someone wants to name it and define it, we can put it in the class
> > hierarchy.
> 
> 
> My proposal would be the following. The important things are that:
>  1. It incorporates Conal's deep arrow,
>  2. as well as everything that is needed for functional references/lenses
> and bijective/invertible functions.
> I have chosen to reuse prelude names where possible.
> 

Looks good to me. CategoryPair is what I had in mind.

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