Proposal: Make amap an IArray method

David Feuer david.feuer at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 23:23:04 UTC 2014


Oh, I think I missed your point, that this operation really belongs in a
*different* class—sorry.
On Nov 14, 2014 5:07 PM, "Carter Schonwald" <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
wrote:

> amap :: (IArray <http://Data-Array-IArray.html#t:IArray> a e', IArray
> <http://Data-Array-IArray.html#t:IArray> a e, Ix
> <http://../base-4.7.0.1/Data-Ix.html#t:Ix> i) => (e' -> e) -> a i e' -> a
> i e
>
> this looks like map. just with a class constraint. I dont buy that theres
> any ROI for putting it into the class at all.
> By the same arguement, map and fold in Vector should be part of the class.
>
> -1
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 4:30 PM, David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I realized what I wrote about amap earlier was utterly boneheaded,
>> because it has the wrong type for fmap. The only way to accomplish my goal
>> is to make Data.Array.IArray.amap a method of the IArray class. This will
>> allow IArray instances to offer optimized versions and things like
>> amap/coerce rules. The current implementation of amap can become the
>> default one.
>>
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