[Haskell-cafe] monad . comonad = id

[Miguel Mitrofanov]

> I have a question regarding the connection between monads and comonads. 
> I always thought of the comonad operations as being the inverse 
> operations of the corresponding monad functions.

That's not true.

> If this is the case I would like to know what the corresponding monad 
> for the following comond could be. This comonad treats lists as pointed 
> sets where the first element is focused.
> 
>   instance Comonad [] where
>     extract = head
>     duplicate xs = init (zipWith (++) (tails xs) (inits xs))

First of all, this is NOT a comonad. The term "comonad" doesn't refer just to instances of Comonad class, it refers to instances that satisfy 
several laws.

Secondly, "[]" is a monad, and there is an instance of Monad class for it. It's working; don't fix it.