Control.Alt

class Alt :: (Type -> Type) -> Constraintclass (Functor f) <= Alt f  where

The Alt type class identifies an associative operation on a type constructor. It is similar to Semigroup, except that it applies to types of kind * -> *, like Array or List, rather than concrete types String or Number.

Alt instances are required to satisfy the following laws:

• Associativity: (x <|> y) <|> z == x <|> (y <|> z)
• Distributivity: f <$> (x <|> y) == (f <$> x) <|> (f <$> y)

For example, the Array ([]) type is an instance of Alt, where (<|>) is defined to be concatenation.

A common use case is to select the first "valid" item, or, if all items are "invalid", the last "invalid" item.

For example:

import Control.Alt ((<|>))
import Data.Maybe (Maybe(..)
import Data.Either (Either(..))

Nothing <|> Just 1 <|> Just 2 == Just 1
Left "err" <|> Right 1 <|> Right 2 == Right 1
Left "err 1" <|> Left "err 2" <|> Left "err 3" == Left "err 3"

Members

• alt :: forall a. f a -> f a -> f a

Instances

• Alt Array

Operator alias for Control.Alt.alt (left-associative / precedence 3)

class Functor :: (Type -> Type) -> Constraintclass Functor f  where

A Functor is a type constructor which supports a mapping operation map.

map can be used to turn functions a -> b into functions f a -> f b whose argument and return types use the type constructor f to represent some computational context.

Instances must satisfy the following laws:

• Identity: map identity = identity
• Composition: map (f <<< g) = map f <<< map g

Members

• map :: forall a b. (a -> b) -> f a -> f b

Instances

• Functor (Function r)
• Functor Array
• Functor Proxy

void :: forall f a. Functor f => f a -> f Unit

The void function is used to ignore the type wrapped by a Functor, replacing it with Unit and keeping only the type information provided by the type constructor itself.

void is often useful when using do notation to change the return type of a monadic computation:

main = forE 1 10 \n -> void do
  print n
  print (n * n)

Operator alias for Data.Functor.map (left-associative / precedence 4)

Operator alias for Data.Functor.voidRight (left-associative / precedence 4)

Operator alias for Data.Functor.mapFlipped (left-associative / precedence 1)

Operator alias for Data.Functor.voidLeft (left-associative / precedence 4)