[Haskell-cafe] mapM and Control.Arrow

[Zemyla]

It needs to be an ArrowChoice, not just an Arrow, but it can be done.
https://github.com/ekmett/profunctors/pull/40

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019, 15:37 Olaf Klinke <olf at aatal-apotheke.de> wrote:

> Dear cafe,
>
> consider the declaration
>
> mapM :: (SomeArrow a, Traversable t) => a b c -> a (t b) (t c)
>
> For the Arrow a = (->), the above mapM is just an over-constrained fmap,
> since Functor is a superclass of Traversable. For the arrow a = Kleisi m,
> the above mapM is the Control.Monad.mapM we know. Currently I fail to see
> how it could be defined with any of the existing sub-classes in
> Control.Arrow.
>
> One might say that fmap and mapM are on the same spectrum: If you
> specialize SomeArrow to (->) you can generalize Traversable to Functor, if
> you specialize Functor to Traversable you can generalize (->) to SomeArrow.
>
> Cheers,
> Olaf
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