[Haskell-cafe] Towards a single, unified API for incremental data processing

[Yves Parès]

That would be a great idea... too bad it's an April hoax ;)


Le 1 avril 2012 21:50, John Millikin <jmillikin at gmail.com> a écrit :

> There are currently several APIs for processing strict monoidal values
> as if they were pieces of a larger, lazy value. Some of the most
> popular are based on Oleg's left-fold enumerators, including the
> "iteratee", "enumerator", "iterIO". Other choices include "comonads",
> "conduits", and "pipes".
>
> Despite having various internal implementations and semantics, these
> libraries generally export a similar-looking API. This is a terrible
> duplication of effort, and it causes dependant packages to be strongly
> tied to the underlying implementation.
>
> I propose that a new package, "tzinorot", be written to provide a
> single API based on Data.List. It should be pretty easy to use,
> requiring only a few common extensions to the type system.
>
> For example, the enumerator package's 'mapM' function could be
> generalized for use in tzinorot through a few simple modifications to
> the type signature:
>
> ----------
> -- enumerator mapM
> mapM :: Monad m => (ao -> m ai) -> Enumeratee ao ai m b
>
> -- tzinorot mapM
> mapM :: (Monad m, Tzinorot t, ListLike l1 a1, ListLike l2 a2) => (l1
> a1 -> m (l2 a2)) -> t Void s (TzinorotItems (l1 a1)) (TzinorotItems
> (l2 a2)) m r
> ----------
>
> To make it easier to install and use the tzinorot package, it will
> depend on all of its supported implementations (iteratee, enumerator,
> conduits, pipes, etc), and use Michael Snoyman's "cabala" tool to
> manage dependency versions. See the cabala announcement for details on
> use:
>
> http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/04/replacing-cabal
>
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