// Functional primitives and conveniences
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//! Functional primitives and conveniences.
//!
//! TODO: More information on TAMER's stance on Rust,
//! the architecture of the compiler,
//! and how that squares with functional programming.
//!
//! The definitions in this module are _derived from needs in TAMER_.
//! This is _not_ intended to be a comprehensive functional programming
//! library,
//! nor is such a thing desirable.
//!
//! This module is named `f` rather than `fn` because the latter is a
//! reserved word in Rust and makes for awkward (`r#`-prefixed) imports.
/// A type providing a `map` function from inner type `T` to `U`.
///
/// In an abuse of terminology,
/// this functor is polymorphic over the entire trait,
/// rather than just the definition of `map`,
/// allowing implementations to provide multiple specialized `map`s
/// without having to define individual `map_*` methods.
/// Rust will often be able to infer the proper types and invoke the
/// intended `map` function within a given context,
/// but methods may still be explicitly disambiguated using the
/// turbofish notation if this is too confusing in context.
/// Strictly speaking,
/// if a functor requires a monomorphic function
/// (so `T = U`),
/// then it's not really a functor.
/// We'll refer to these structures informally as monomorphic functors,
/// since they provide the same type of API as a functor,
/// but cannot change the underlying type.
///
/// This trait also provides a number of convenience methods that can be
/// implemented in terms of [`Functor::map`].
///
/// Why a primitive `map` instead of `fmap`?
/// ========================================
/// One of the methods of this trait is [`Functor::fmap`],
/// which [is motivated by Haskell][haskell-functor].
/// This trait implements methods in terms of [`map`](Self::map) rather than
/// [`fmap`](Self::fmap) because `map` is a familiar idiom in Rust and
/// fits most naturally with surrounding idiomatic Rust code;
/// there is no loss in generality in doing so.
/// Furthermore,
/// implementing `fmap` requires the use of moved closures,
/// which is additional boilerplate relative to `map`.
///
/// [haskell-functor]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base/docs/Data-Functor.html
pub trait Functor: Sized {
/// Type of object resulting from [`Functor::map`] operation.
///
/// The term "target" originates from category theory,
/// representing the codomain of the functor.
type Target = Self;
/// A structure-preserving map between types `T` and `U`.
///
/// This unwraps any number of `T` from `Self` and applies the
/// function `f` to transform it into `U`,
/// wrapping the result back up into [`Self`].
///
/// This is the only method that needs to be implemented on this trait;
/// all others are implemented in terms of it.
fn map(self, f: impl FnOnce(T) -> U) -> Self::Target;
/// Curried form of [`Functor::map`],
/// with arguments reversed.
///
/// `fmap` returns a unary closure that accepts an object of type
/// [`Self`].
/// This is more amenable to function composition and a point-free style.
fn fmap(f: impl FnOnce(T) -> U) -> impl FnOnce(Self) -> Self::Target {
move |x| x.map(f)
}
/// Map over self,
/// replacing each mapped element with `value`.
///
/// This is equivalent to mapping with an identity function.
///
/// The name `overwrite` was chosen because `replace` is already used in
/// core Rust libraries to overwrite and then _return_ the original
/// value,
/// whereas this function overwrites and then returns
/// [`Self::Target`].
///
/// This is intended for cases where there's a single element that will
/// be replaced,
/// taking advantage of [`Functor`]'s trait-level polymorphism.
fn overwrite(self, value: U) -> Self::Target {
self.map(|_| value)
}
/// Curried form of [`Functor::overwrite`],
/// with arguments reversed.
fn foverwrite(value: U) -> impl FnOnce(Self) -> Self::Target {
move |x| x.overwrite(value)
}
}
impl Functor for Option {
type Target = Option;
fn map(self, f: impl FnOnce(T) -> U) -> >::Target {
Option::map(self, f)
}
}
/// A nullary [`Fn`] delaying some computation.
///
/// For the history and usage of this term in computing,
/// see .
pub trait Thunk = Fn() -> T;
/// Data represented either as a reference with a `'static` lifetime
/// (representing a computation already having been performed),
/// or a [`Thunk`] that will produce similar data when invoked.
///
/// The purpose of this trait is to force an API to defer potentially
/// expensive computations in situations where it may be too easy to
/// accidentally do too much work due to Rust's eager argument evaluation
/// strategy
/// (e.g. see Clippy's `expect_fun_call` lint).
///
/// This is sort of like a static [`std::borrow::Cow`],
/// in the sense that it can hold a reference or owned value;
/// a thunk can return a value of any type or lifetime
/// (including owned),
/// whereas non-thunks require static references.
/// _The burden is on the trait implementation to enforce these
/// constraints._
pub trait ThunkOrStaticRef {
type Output: AsRef;
/// Force the [`Thunk`] or return the static reference,
/// depending on the type of [`Self`].
fn call(self) -> Self::Output;
}
impl, F: Fn() -> R> ThunkOrStaticRef for F {
type Output = R;
fn call(self) -> R {
self()
}
}
impl ThunkOrStaticRef for &'static str {
type Output = &'static str;
fn call(self) -> &'static str {
self
}
}