Hi Joachim,
On Wed, 5 Oct 2012, Joachim Breitner wrote:
On Wed, 3 Oct 2012, Henning Thielemann wrote:
I wondered whether there is a brilliant typing technique that makes
Data.Map.! a total function. That is, is it possible to give (!) a
type, such that m!k expects a proof that the key k is actually present
in the dictionary m? How can I provide the proof that k is in m?
Same question for 'lab' (import Data.Graph.Inductive(lab)). That is,
can there be a totalLab, with (totalLab gr = fromJust . lab gr) that
expects a proof that the node Id is actually contained in a graph?
I think it is possible to do this using the same trick that ST is using,
i.e. rank 2 types. The problem is that this code is likely to be
unwieldy to use, as the variable needs to change with every change to
the map – but I guess if you create your map once and then use it in
various places without modification, this can actually work.
Thank you for your detailed answer! I thought about such a tagging method
but was missing your idea of updating tags of existing keys in order to
reflect the knowledge about newly added keys.
Your solution will certainly work for the set of methods you have
implemented. All of your methods extend the set of keys or preserve it.
But what about deletion? The certificate that key k is contained in a Map
must be invalidated by the deletion of k. How could I add this to your
approach?
Maybe I should track the operations applied to the keys of a map and
provide algebraic simplifications, like so:
insert ::
Ord k =>
Tagged s k -> v -> Tagged m (Map k v) ->
Tagged (Insert s m) (Map k v)
lookup ::
Ord k =>
Tagged s k -> Tagged (Insert s m) (Map k v) -> v
-- * example simplifications
commuteInsert ::
Tagged (Insert s0 (Insert s1 m)) (Map k v) ->
Tagged (Insert s1 (Insert s0 m)) (Map k v)
simplifyInsertInsert ::
Tagged (Insert s (Insert s m)) (Map k v) ->
Tagged (Insert s m) (Map k v)
simplifyInsertDelete ::
Tagged (Insert s (Delete s m)) (Map k v) ->
Tagged (Insert s m) (Map k v)
simplifyDeleteInsert ::
Tagged (Delete s (Insert s m)) (Map k v) ->
Tagged (Delete s m) (Map k v)
example =
lookup k0 $ commuteInsert $
insert k1 "for" $ insert k0 "bar" m
I also thought about something like the "exceptions trick". That is, a
context like
(ContainsKeyA k, ContainsKeyB k) => Map k x
might tell that certain keys are in the Map. However, this would not only
mean that I need a type class for every insertion, it would also not work
reliably for deletion. If keyA = keyB, then deletion of keyA must also
remove the ContainsKeyB constraint. :-(
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