[Haskell-cafe] monad . comonad = id

[Miguel Mitrofanov]

Seems like I was wrong. It does satisfy comonad laws. Sorry.

However, the "duality" of monads and comonads isn't that simple. A comonad is actually a monad itself, but in different category. It has nothing 
to do with inverse functions etc.

Jan Christiansen wrote on 08.05.2009 14:47:
> Hi,
> 
> 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. As I do not know the 
> underlying theory I thought I simply ask the masters.
> 
> Is there a formal verification for this intuition? That is, are there 
> always corresponding instances for monad and comonad such that the 
> following laws are satisfied?
> 
>   extract . return == id
> 
>   join . duplicate == id
> 
> 
> 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))
> 
> Obviously we can define return x = [x]. But I do not know how to define 
> join.
> 
> 
> Cheers, Jan
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