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Twanvl: Clarified proposal by desugaring to dictionaries
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<p>Clarified proposal by desugaring to dictionaries</p>
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Twanvl
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Malcolm at 10:47, 14 January 2009
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Twanvl: Another class system extension proposal
2007-10-29T17:25:39Z
<p>Another class system extension proposal</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Category:Proposals]]<br />
<br />
== The problem ==<br />
The base library currently contains (essentially) the following classes:<br />
<haskell><br />
class Monoid a where<br />
mempty :: a<br />
mappend :: a -> a -> a<br />
class MonadPlus m where<br />
mzero :: m a<br />
mplus :: m a -> m a -> m a<br />
class ArrowPlus c where<br />
arrowZero :: c a b<br />
arrowPlus :: c a b -> c a b -> c a b<br />
</haskell><br />
<br />
If you look closely '''these are all the same''.<br />
The only difference is in the superclasses and in the arity of the argument.<br />
You will find that any class that is an instance of MonadPlus can be made an instance of Monoid.<br />
In fact, some types such as lists, are indeed instances of both classes.<br />
<br />
This leads to duplication of code and of extra names for what is essentially the same thing.<br />
When should you use <hask>mappend</hask> instead of <hask>mplus</hask>, and when shouldn't you?<br />
<br />
This exact same situation is also found in the <hask>Data.Typeable</hask> module, which has the classes:<br />
<haskell><br />
class Typeable a where<br />
typeOf :: a -> TypeRep<br />
class Typeable1 t where<br />
typeOf1 :: t a -> TypeRep<br />
class Typeable2 t where<br />
typeOf2 :: t a b -> TypeRep<br />
-- etc.<br />
</haskell><br />
<br />
== Chained instances ==<br />
<br />
This Typeable library comes with instances<br />
<haskell><br />
instance (Typeable2 t, Typeable a) => Typable (t a)<br />
instance (Typeable3 t, Typeable a) => Typable2 (t a)<br />
-- etc.<br />
</haskell><br />
Which means that only one instance of <hask>typeableN</hask> has to be written for a type constructor with arity n.<br />
<br />
We could do the same for <hask>Monoid</hask>.<br />
The <hask>MonadPlus</hask> and <hask>ArrowPlus</hask> classes can not be used for this purpose, because they require <hask>Monad</hask> and <hask>Arrow</hask> superclasses.<br />
But we could add <hask>Monoid1</hask>, <hask>Monoid2</hask>, etc.<br />
<haskell><br />
class Monoid2 t where<br />
mempty2 :: t a<br />
mappend2 :: t a -> t a -> t a<br />
class Monoid3 t where<br />
mempty3 :: t a b<br />
mappend3 :: t a b -> t a b -> t a b<br />
instance Monoid2 t => Monoid (t a) where<br />
mempty = mempty2<br />
mappend = mappend2<br />
</haskell><br />
<hask>MonadPlus</hask> can then be a [[Class_system_extension_proposal#Typeclass_synonyms|class alias]] or simply a subclass of both <hask>Monad</hask> and <hask>Monoid2</hask>.<br />
<haskell><br />
class (Monad m, Monoid2 m) => MonadPlus m<br />
</haskell><br />
<br />
A big disadvantage of these instances is that it is an all or nothing aproach.<br />
It is no longer possible to declare an <hask>instance Monoid (t a)</hask> directly, because it overlaps with the instance using <hask>Monoid2</hask>.<br />
Usually this is not a big problem, but it also forces the parameter of the type constructor to have kind <hask>*</hask> and there can't be constraints on it.<br />
<br />
For example there is currently an instance<br />
<haskell><br />
instance Ord k => Monoid (Map k v)<br />
</haskell><br />
This would become imposible, because the instance would need be<br />
<haskell><br />
instance Monoid2 Map -- we need Ord<br />
</haskell><br />
<br />
== Quantified contexts ==<br />
An alternative would be a small extension of the Haskell language to allow quantifiers in contexts.<br />
Where we now write<br />
<haskell><br />
function :: (Class a, Another (t a)) => Type a<br />
</haskell><br />
We would also allow<br />
<haskell><br />
function :: (forall b. Ctx => SomeClass b) => Type<br />
</haskell><br />
The meaning is simple, to satisfy this context, an instance<br />
<haskell><br />
instance Ctx => SomeClass b<br />
</haskell><br />
is needed (or a more general one).<br />
<br />
We can use these quantified contexts in the <hask>Monoid</hask> example as:<br />
<haskell><br />
class (Monad m, forall a. Monoid (m a)) => MonadPlus m<br />
</haskell><br />
or without the superflous extra class, for example<br />
<haskell><br />
guard :: (Monad m, forall a. Monoid (m a)) => Bool -> m ()<br />
</haskell><br />
<br />
The compiler will never infer a quantified context; the above type is not the most general type of guard.<br />
If you gave no type signature the compiler would infer<br />
<haskell><br />
guard :: (Monad m, Monoid (m ())) => Bool -> m ()<br />
</haskell></div>
Twanvl