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module TypeClass
-- experiment on one option for typeclass (we don't have record yet)
-- this would be nicer with records and copatterns
-- At this point, for Agda style, I'll probably need to postpone, or collect constraints
-- at lesat. Idris style, I might get away without short term.
-- So I can read mcbride paper and maybe agda source.
-- we need a bit more than this, but
data Monad : (U -> U) -> U where
MkMonad : { M : U -> U } ->
(bind : {A B : U} -> (M A) -> (A -> M B) -> M B) ->
Monad M
data Maybe : U -> U where
Just : {A : U} -> A -> Maybe A
Nothing : {A : U} -> Maybe A
data Either : U -> U -> U where
Left : {A B : U} -> A -> Either A B
Right : {A B : U} -> B -> Either A B
EitherMonad : {A : U} -> Monad (Either A)
EitherMonad = MkMonad {Either A} (\ ma amb =>
-- ^ Need this for scrut type to be non-meta
case ma of
Left a => Left a
Right b => amb b)
-- [instance]
MaybeMonad : Monad Maybe
-- Agda case lambda might be nice..
-- The {Maybe} isn't solved in type for the case
MaybeMonad = MkMonad {Maybe} (\ {A} ma amb =>
case ma of
Nothing => Nothing
-- It doesn't discover pat$5 is A during pattern matching
-- oh, but var 0 value is var5
Just a => amb a)
-- So the idea here is to have some implicits that are solved by search
_>>=_ : {a b : U} -> {m : U -> U} -> {x : Monad m} -> (m a) -> (a -> m b) -> m b
_>>=_ {a} {b} {m} {MkMonad bind'} ma amb = bind' {a} {b} ma amb
infixl 1 _>>=_
ptype Int
-- For now, we may try to solve this at creation time, but it's possible postpone is needed
-- *SOLVE meta 6 sp [< (%var 0 [< ]), (%meta 4 [< (%var 0 [< ])])] val (%ref Maybe [< (%meta 9 [< (%var 0 [< ]), (%var 1 [< ])])])
-- Essentially (m6 v0) (m4 ...) == Maybe Int and (m6 v0) (m2 v0) == Maybe Int
-- Idris gets this by specially treating determining arguments of an auto as "invertible". It then unifies
-- the last arg on each side and tries the rest, which is now in the pattern fragment.
-- Agda may do this slightly differently from Idris:
-- https://agda.readthedocs.io/en/v2.6.0.1/language/instance-arguments.html#instance-resolution
-- I think it searches, pulls in all possibilities and tries to unify them into place.
-- We'll want to extend our example to what I have in Foo2.agda to test that it finds the right
-- one. Maybe look at the source to see if there is any invertible trickery going on?
-- I know that here, if I fill in the instance, everything works out, so finding the instance that works
-- out might be sufficient. That might mean that a instance constraint is a pile of options that get
-- winnowed down?
-- Putting MaybeMonad in there helps the unification
-- of Maybe Int =?= ?m6 ?m2 (as Monad Maybe (the type) gives ?m6 is Maybe)
-- and MaybeEither would fail after a couple of steps. But it seems expensive/complex
-- to have to run the process down for each candidate.
-- Agda seems complicated, minting fresh metas for bits of potential solutions (which
-- may be tossed if the solution is ruled out.)
foo : Int -> Maybe Int
foo x = _>>=_ {_} {_} {_} {_} (Just x) (\ x => Just 10)
-- ^
/-
So, agda style we'd guess ?m8 is MonadMaybe or MonadEither - agda's "maybe" case
-/