Decomposing datatypes into functors

Published: July 3, 2021, 5 p.m.

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This episode continues the discussion of Swierstra's paper "Datatypes \\xe0 la Carte", explaining how we can decompose a datatype into the application of a fixed-point type constructor and then a functor.\\xa0 The functor itself can be assembled from other functors for pieces of the datatype.\\xa0 This makes modular datatypes possible.

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