[Haskell-cafe] Haskell function composition commutivity?

[Carter Schonwald]

Agreed! I’ve actually never met somone who suggests it as either a starter
or advanced reference e

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:43 AM Dominic Steinitz <dominic at steinitz.org>
wrote:

> I’d recommend *not* reading Categories for the Working Mathematician
> unless you are a mathematician (lots of background assumed) and even then
> it’s a bit of a dull read.
>
> Dominic Steinitz
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> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 02:19:46PM -0500, Galaxy Being wrote:
>
> Your answers seem to originate outside of normal Haskell tutorials. Where
> can I start with this higher superset theory?
>
>
> There's a reason why the tutorials don't cover this, the categorical
> foundations of Haskell types are not beginner material.  It is perhaps
> best to defer going down this rabbit hole until you're more comfortable
> with the Haskell generally.
>
> You could start with:
>
>
> https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/
>    https://bartoszmilewski.com/2015/04/07/natural-transformations/
>
> For the Yoneda Lemma specifically, I'd recommend:
>
>    http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/11/yoneda-lemma.html
>
> Parametricity is covered in "Theorems for free":
>
>    https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/CourseCentral/831/burton/Notes/July14/free.pdf
>
> but it is by no means elementary, though skimming it for the essential
> facts and skipping the gory details is not too difficult.
>
> You could also read "Categories for the Working Mathematician" by
> Saunders Mac Lane.
>
>
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