[Haskell-cafe] lawless instances of Functor
Paul Brauner
paul.brauner at loria.fr
Mon Jan 4 17:14:53 EST 2010
Hi,
I'm trying to get a deep feeling of Functors (and then pointed Functors,
Applicative Functors, etc.). To this end, I try to find lawless
instances of Functor that satisfy one law but not the other.
I've found one instance that satisfies fmap (f.g) = fmap f . fmap g
but not fmap id = id:
data Foo a = A | B
instance Functor Foo where
fmap f A = B
fmap f B = B
-- violates law 1
fmap id A = B
-- respects law 2
fmap (f . g) A = (fmap f . fmap g) A = B
fmap (f . g) B = (fmap f . fmap g) B = B
But I can't come up with an example that satifies law 1 and not law 2.
I'm beginning to think this isn't possible but I didn't read anything
saying so, neither do I manage to prove it.
I'm sure someone knows :)
Paul
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