types

Tricky Functor instances

I was recently started reading Thinking with Types and came upon a great explanation of variance and the role it plays in reasoning about functions. You’re probably familiar with Functor, which says that for some t a, if given a function f :: a -> b, you can transform the t a -> t b. Essentially, the essence of “functor-ness” is the ability to transform a result into another type. What about “anti-functorn-ness”, where you want to transform the input rather than the result of a function from a -> b?

Sun Jan 13, 2019 520 words