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129 <h1>Categorical Programs</h1>
132 <div id="table-of-contents">
133 <h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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135 <ul>
136 <li><a href="#sec-1">1 The Category of Types </a>
137 <ul>
138 <li><a href="#sec-1-1">1.1 Building new data types out of existing ones </a></li>
139 </ul>
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146 <h2 id="sec-1"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> The Category of Types </h2>
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149 <p>Every computer language with data types (such as Integers,
150 Floats, or
151 Strings) corresponds with a certain category; the objects of the category are the data types
152 of the language, and there is one arrow between data types \(A\) and \(B\)
153 for every function in the language whose argument has type \(A\) and whose return value
154 has type \(B\).
155 </p>
159 <pre class="src src-clojure">(<span style="color: #f0dfaf; font-weight: bold;">ns</span> categorical.morphisms)
161 </pre>
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170 <h3 id="sec-1-1"><span class="section-number-3">1.1</span> Building new data types out of existing ones </h3>
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174 <p>
175 We will now discuss two processes which combine existing
176 data types to yield composite data types. These higher-order processes will be
177 <i>functorial</i>, which means that they will recombine not only the objects of
178 our category (the data types), but the arrows as well (functions with
179 typed input and output).
180 </p>
181 <p>
182 The <code>product</code> functor combines two data types, \(A\) and \(B\), producing
183 a new type, denoted \(A\times B\). Conceptually, values with the data type \(A\times
184 B\) have two components, the first of which is a value of type \(A\), the
185 second of which is a value of type \(B\). Concretely, the data type \(A\times B\)
186 can be implemented as pairs of values, the first of which is
187 of type \(A\) and the second of which is of type \(B\). With this
188 implementation in mind, you can see that the type \(A\) and type \(B\)
189 constituents of type \(A\times B\) value can be recovered; the so-called
190 projection functors <code>first</code> and <code>second</code> recover them. A third
191 functor, the <code>diagonal</code> functor, completes our toolkit; given
192 value \(a\) of type \(A\), it produces the value \((a,a)\) of type \(A\times A\).
193 </p>
197 <pre class="src src-clojure">(<span style="color: #f0dfaf; font-weight: bold;">defn</span> <span style="color: #f0dfaf;">product</span>[a b] (<span style="color: #8cd0d3;">list</span> a b))
198 (<span style="color: #f0dfaf; font-weight: bold;">def</span> <span style="color: #f0dfaf;">projections</span> (<span style="color: #8cd0d3;">list</span> first second))
199 (<span style="color: #f0dfaf; font-weight: bold;">defn</span> <span style="color: #f0dfaf;">diagonal</span>[a] (product a a))
201 </pre>
206 <p>
207 The <code>coproduct</code> functor combines two data types, \(A\) and \(B\),
208 producing a new type, denoted \(A+B\). Conceptually, you construct the
209 \(A+B\) datatype by creating labelled versions of the data types \(A\) and
210 \(B\) &mdash; we'll call them black-\(A\) and white-\(B\) &mdash; and
211 then creating a data type \(A+B\) which contains all the black-\(A\)
212 values and all the white-\(B\) values. Concretely, you can implement the
213 \(A+B\) data type using label-value pairs: the first value in the pair
214 is either the label `black' or the label `white'; the second
215 value must have type \(A\) if the label is black, or type \(B\) if the
216 label is white.
217 </p>
218 <p>
219 Now, the <code>product</code> functor came with projection functors <code>first</code>
220 and <code>second</code> that take \(A\times B\) values and return (respectively) \(A\) values and
221 \(B\) values. The <code>coproduct</code> functor, conversely, comes with two
222 injection functors <code>make-black</code> and <code>make-white</code> that perform the
223 opposite function: they take (respectively) \(A\) values and \(B\) values,
224 promoting them to the \(A+B\) datatype by making the \(A\)'s into
225 black-\(A\)'s and the \(B\)'s into white-\(B\)'s.
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