User:PaoloMartini

Points-free contest

Manual reductions

\a b c -> a + (b*c)
\a b c -> (+) a ((*) b c)
\a b -> ((+) a) . ((*) b)
\a -> (((+) a) .) . (*)
\a -> (.) ((+ a) .) (*)
\a -> (flip (.)) (*) ((+ a) .)
\a -> (flip (.)) (*) (((.) (+ a))
(flip (.)) (*) . ((.) . (+))

<xerox> I think I deserve an award for that reduction.
<dons> xerox reaches PointFree Hacker, Level 7.

<xerox> f . g . h = (\x -> f . x . h) g = (\x -> f . (x . h)) g = (\x -> (f .) ((.) x h)) g = ((f .) . (. h)) g

pascal = iterate (ap (zipWith (+) . (++ [1])) ([1] ++)) [1]
-- > take 3 pascal
-- [[1],[2,2],[3,4,3]]

Experimenting with variadic functions

First revision (W (a -> a))

{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fglasgow-exts -fallow-undecidable-instances #-}
module VarArg
  where

data W a = W { unW :: a } deriving Show

-- `c' is:
--
-- c f x = (f x)
-- c f x y = c (f x) y
--

class C a r | r -> a where
  c :: (a -> a -> a) -> a -> r

instance C a (W (a -> a)) where
  c f x = W (\y -> f x y)

r :: Int -> W (Int -> Int) -> Int
r x = ($ x) . unW

instance C a r => C a (a -> r) where
  c f x y = c f (f x y)  

test1 = let t1 = c (+) 1 
            t2 = c (+) 1 2 
            t3 = c (+) 1 2 3 
            t4 = c (+) 1 2 3 4 
        in map (r 0) [t1,t2,t3,t4]

test2 = zipWith (==) [1, 1+2, sum [1,2,3], foldr (+) 0 [1,2,3,4]] test1

-- `d' is:
--
-- d f [    ] = f
-- d f (x:xs) = d (f x) xs
--
-- ..for which `c' is the only valid `f'.
--

class D a r | r -> a where
  d :: (forall r. (C a r) => a -> r) -> [a] -> r

instance C a (W (a -> a)) => D a (W (a -> a)) where
  d f (x:[]) = f x
  d f (x:xs) = d (f x) xs

test3 = let t1 = d (c (^)) [2..3]
            t2 = d (c (*)) [2..10]
            t3 = d (c (+)) [2..100]
        in map (r 1) [t1,t2,t3]

test4 = zipWith (==) [foldl1 (^) [2..3], foldl1 (*) [1..10], foldl1 (+) [1..100]] test3

No more incoherent instances ((W a) and QuickCheck)

{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fglasgow-exts #-}
module Apply
  where

import Test.QuickCheck

data W a = W { reify :: a } deriving Show -- wrapper

class Apply a r | r -> a where
  apply :: (a -> a -> a) -> a -> a -> r

instance Apply a (W a) where
  apply f x y = W (f x y)

instance Apply a r => Apply a (a -> r) where
  apply f x y z = apply f (f x y) z

-- test

plus_prop = quickCheck p2 >> quickCheck p3 >> quickCheck p4

  where p2 :: Int -> Int -> Bool
        p3 :: Int -> Int -> Int -> Bool
        p4 :: Int -> Int -> Int -> Int -> Bool

        p2 x y     = (reify $ apply (+) x y)     == x + y
        p3 x y z   = (reify $ apply (+) x y z)   == x + y + z
        p4 x y z w = (reify $ apply (+) x y z w) == x + y + z + w

Catamorfism on a binary tree

Replacing systematically the data constructors with an evaluation function.

data Tree a = Leaf a
            | Branch (Tree a) (Tree a)

cata :: (a -> r, r -> r -> r) -> Tree a -> r
cata (f1,f2) (Leaf x) = f1 x
cata (f1,f2) (Branch b1 b2) = f2 (cata (f1,f2) b1) (cata (f1,f2) b2)