[Haskell-beginners] Mapping list over datatype using Traversable and State monad.

Dmitriy Matrosov sgf.dma at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 21:06:26 CEST 2012


I have one more question.

Also i need to zipApp list to part of Line: either to only first list
("ordered" elements) or to only second ("other" elements). I have implemented
this using Monoid:

    import Data.Monoid

    instance Monoid (Line a) where
        mempty          = Line [] []
        (Line xs ys) `mappend` (Line xs' ys')
                        = Line (xs `mappend` xs') (ys `mappend` ys')

    onlyOrdered :: Line a -> Line a
    onlyOrdered (Line xs ys)    = Line xs []

    onlyOthers :: Line a -> Line a
    onlyOthers (Line xs ys)     = Line [] ys

and function looks like

    inlineToOrdered :: (a -> a) -> Line a -> Line a
    inlineToOrdered g   = mappend
                            <$> zipApp (id : repeat g) . onlyOrdered
                            <*> onlyOthers

It works as well, but is this solution good? Or there is some better way to
limit "scope" of function application to only part of datatype?




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