[Haskell-cafe] is it possible to implement Functor for ByteString and Text

[Niklas Haas]

I think it's more realistic to use lens style Setters where possible.
Essentially:

type Setter s t a b = (a -> b) -> s -> t
type Setter' s a = Setter s s a a

bytes :: Setter ByteString Word8
bytes = BS.map

fmapped :: Functor f => Setter (f a) (f b) a b
fmapped = fmap

In this framework, you could write a function that can abstract over any
setter, eg.

changeSomething :: Setter s t Foo Bar -> s -> t
changeSomething s = s fooBar
  where fooBar :: Foo -> Bar

It's not quite the same thing as making ByteString or Text an instance
of Functor, but for some tasks, it can be a good replacement.

On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 02:08:40 +0100, silvio <silvio.frischi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow ConstraintKinds. There's always a new extension to be learned :)
> Anyway, if changing the Functor declaration were allowed, it would
> probably make more sense to use something like MonoFunctor.
> Unfortunately, MPTC or type family stuff is never going to make it into
> Prelude.
> 
> Silvio
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