When is a container a comonad?

Abbott, Altenkirch, Ghani and others have taught us that many parameterized datatypes (set functors) can be usefully analyzed via container representations in terms of a set of shapes and a set of positions in each shape. This paper builds on the observation that datatypes often carry additional str...

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Main Authors: Danel Ahman, James Chapman, Tarmo Uustalu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Logical Methods in Computer Science e.V. 2014-09-01
Series:Logical Methods in Computer Science
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Online Access:https://lmcs.episciences.org/894/pdf