Proposal: Add Compositor class as superclass of Arrow
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haskell at list.mightyreason.com
Tue Oct 23 05:05:09 EDT 2007
Conal Elliott wrote:
> I'm delighted to see these interfaces being explored. Question: why
> separate fan-out (&&&) from pair? Do you know of type constructors that
> have fst & snd but not &&&? Similarly for CategoryAssoc. - Conal
>
Naively, I would venture that one might not want to be able to consume the input
more than once. There were papers that modeled quantum mechanics/computation
using arrows, but required care care not to have any fan out.
Practically, I have no idea if this is a good example of such a category.
--
Chris
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