Discussion: Allow custom constraint for elem in Foldable

[David Feuer]

What would that exploration look like in your view? Could you sketch a path?

On Jul 27, 2017 7:35 PM, "Eric Mertens" <emertens at gmail.com> wrote:

I would prefer to see designs for something like this explored in a
separate package before we worried about changing base’s Foldable class.

> On Jul 27, 2017, at 3:45 PM, David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Foldable class offers the method
>
>  elem :: Eq a => a -> t a -> Bool
>
> Unfortunately, this is really awful for sets, hash maps, etc. See
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45361801/implement-
an-olog-n-foldable-elem-for-binary-search-trees-in-haskell#45362110
> for an example. We could fix it, kinda:
>
> class Foldable t where
>  type ElemConstr t :: * -> Constraint
>  type ElemConstr t = Eq
>
>  elem :: ElemConstr t a => a -> t a -> Bool
>  default elem :: (ElemConstr t ~ Eq, Eq a) => a -> t a -> Bool
>
> One might legitimately complain that such a wild type is ad hoc, but
> one might counter that complaint by saying that most of Foldable is
> already ad hoc.
>
> David
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