[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: pipes-core 0.0.1

[Twan van Laarhoven]

On 2012-03-11 14:09, Paolo Capriotti wrote:
>> The Category law would be broken, though:
>>
>> unawait x>>>  id == yield x !== unawait x
>
> How did you get this equation? It's not even well-typed:
>
> unawait :: a ->  Pipe a b m ()
> yield :: b ->  Pipe a b m ()

I would expect that

     (id >>> unawait x) >>> await  !==  unawait x >>> await  ===  return x

because in the general case of

     (p >>> unawait x)

if is impossible to transform the unawaited value out of the composition. To do 
that you would need the inverse of p. You can get around this by having a 
special constructor for the identity. But then

     id !== arr id

IMO, neither of these failed laws would be a big problem in practice, since no 
one will actually use identity pipes in combination with unawait. Or perhaps we 
should be satisfied when Pipe is a Semigroupoid?


Twan