[Haskell-beginners] Use Lens to manipulate Data.Tree

[Zach Moazeni]

The folks in the #haskell-lens irc channel helped me out. Installing and
importing http://hackage.haskell.org/package/zippers fixed my problem.
Sounds like it was split out of the lens package at some point.

-Zach

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Zach Moazeni <zach.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to understand how I would manipulate a Data.Tree in Haskell. I
> came across this StackOverflow answer and accompanying blog post, but it
> doesn't run locally for me:
>
> * http://stackoverflow.com/a/15489761/410759
> *
> https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/davorak/code-snippets/zipper-tree-examples
>
> Here's a gist with the code and the error I'm seeing:
> https://gist.github.com/zmoazeni/0049f3ab365ae600b131
>
> I just want to start slow and be able to do three actions:
>
> * add +10 to all values in the tree
> * add a node to an existing node's subForest
> * remove a node (along with its subForest) from the tree
>
> I understand that this won't actually "edit in place" and my code would
> need to call a function which would return an updated version of the
> original tree.
>
> Finally, Lens wasn't my first choice. I was trying to understand Zippers
> from http://learnyouahaskell.com/zippers and my brain seized. I'm just
> falling back to Lens because it seems like the simplest/dsl-ish way to
> manipulate structures like this.
>
> Thanks for any help!
> -Zach
>
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