Add NonEmptyMap and NonEmptySet to containers

Zemyla zemyla at gmail.com
Fri Sep 20 01:49:47 UTC 2019


Counterpoint: Generic1 refers to a higher kinded Generic, not a nonempty
one.

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 20:17 Alexandre Esteves <
alexandre.fmp.esteves at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yet more precedent:
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/semigroupoids-5.3.3/docs/Data-Semigroup-Foldable.html#t:Foldable1
> I do like the sound of `instance Foldable1 Set1` more than I do `instance
> NonEmptyFoldable NonEmptySet`
>
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/semigroupoids-5.3.3/docs/Data-Semigroup-Foldable.html#t:Foldable1>
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:49 AM V.Liepelt <V.Liepelt at kent.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I saw your thread about non-empty containers today. Why not call them
>> `Set1`, `Map1`, etc. in analogy to `many`/`many1` from parser combinators?
>>
>> I think most agree that `NonEmpty` is not a great name—I couldn’t
>> summarise it better than Andreas: "NonEmpty what?”. Hence I always do the
>> following:
>>
>> ```
>> import Data.List.NonEmpty (NonEmpty)
>> import qualified Data.List.NonEmpty as List1
>>
>> type List1 = NonEmpty
>> ```
>>
>> In fact I just hoogled for this and noticed that the rebase package seems
>> to do this too.
>>
>> More anecdotal precedent: recently a colleague wrote a datatype
>> isomorphic to `(a, a, [a])` and called it something not quite as ridiculous
>> as `ListWithAtLeastTwoElements`, so I suggested `List2` and everybody
>> involved was happy with that.
>>
>> Vilem
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