[Haskell-cafe] Data.Foldable UArray

[Michael Snoyman]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Marcus D. Gabriel <marcus at gabriel.name>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I wanted to make a simple Data.Foldable UArray, and I naively modelled
> it on
>
> > instance Ix i => Foldable (Array i) where
> >  foldr f z = Prelude.foldr f z . elems
>
> with, of course,
>
> > instance Ix i => Foldable (UArray i) where
> > foldr f z = Prelude.foldr f z . elems
>
> which did not work yielding the following type message
>
>   Could not deduce (IArray UArray a) arising from a use of `elems'
>   from the context (Ix i) bound by the instance declaration at
>   ... Possible fix: add an instance declaration for (IArray UArray
>   a) In the second argument of `(.)', namely `elems' In the
>   expression: Data.List.foldr f z . elems In an equation for
>   `foldr': foldr f z = Data.List.foldr f z . elems
>
> I clearly do not understand something because I cannot make this work,
> and I am not sure why.
>
> With the Haskell type system or even with ghc extensions, can one even
> make a Data.Foldable UArray?  If so, how?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> - Marcus
>

You could create an instance of MonoFoldable for UArray, similar to how the
instance for unboxed vectors works[1]. There's no inherent reason why the
Array instances don't exist there yet, I simply didn't get around to adding
them yet.

[1]
https://github.com/snoyberg/mono-traversable/blob/d81bf2fe5ef4ee5957f3a5c54af07a00637c932f/src/Data/MonoTraversable.hs#L502
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