[Haskell-cafe] Embedded Functions in Algebraic Data Types?

[Chaddaï Fouché]

2008/2/10, Michael Feathers <mfeathers at mindspring.com>:
> On a lark, I loaded this into Hugs this morning, and it didn't complain:
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> data Thing = Thing (Integer -> Integer)
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> But, I've never seen that sort of construct in an example.  Do people
> ever embed functions in ADTs?

Yes, anyway you can embed function in Maybe a or Either a b for
example, since they're polymorphic. Embedding functions in ADT
purposefully happens quite often too, just look at the State Monad,
the functionnal references proposal and so on...
Recently I embedded functions into a denotational semantic ADT for a
tiny DSL, there's plenty of use cases.

-- 
Jedaï