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Freer monad in javascript
/* Copyright Freddy A Cubas "superstar64"
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// freer monads (copyible generators)
// based off http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/free-monad.html
const pure = a => ({ id : 0, value : a });
const impure = f => m => ({ id : 1, value : {now : m, after : f}});
const match = (pure, impure) => m => [pure, ({now : m, after : f}) => impure(f)(m)][m.id](m.value);
const eta = impure(pure);
const rbind = k => match(k, k2 => impure(x => rbind(k)(k2(x))));
const bind = m => f => rbind(f)(m);
const apply = f => x => bind(f)(f => bind(x)(x => pure(f(x))));
const map = f => (...x) => x.reduce((f,x) => apply(f)(x), pure(f));
const run = ({pure, rbind}) => match(pure, f => rbind(x => run({pure,rbind}) (f(x))));
// dice example, trying out all possible cases
const list = {
pure : x => [x],
rbind : f => m => m.map(f).reduce((a,b) => a.concat(b), [])
};
// fair dice roll
const dice = eta([1,2,3,4,5,6]);
const possible = map(a => b => c => a + b + c)(
dice,
dice,
dice
);
// sum of all possible triple dice rolls
console.log( run(list) (possible) );
// context example, implicitly passing context around
const reader = {
pure : x => a => x,
rbind : f => m => a => f(m(a))(a)
};
// get the context
const context = eta(a => a);
const square = map(x => x * x)(context);
const squareSum = map(a => b => a + b)(
square,
square
);
console.log ( run(reader) (squareSum) (10) );
// identity, the do nothing monad
const identity = {
pure : x => ({wrapped : x}),
rbind : f => ({wrapped : x}) => f(x)
}
const wrapped_five = eta ( { wrapped : 5 } );
const wrapped_six = map(x => x + 1)(wrapped_five);
console.log( run(identity) (wrapped_six).wrapped );
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