Rouan van Dalen wrote:
It is important to store only a reference to the parent and not a copy of the
entire parent for efficiency.
Others have already recommended the rosezipper package, which gives you
what you want, but I want to address one thing.
foo = <stuff>
bar = foo
In most implementations (including GHC, which I assume you are using),
`bar` will *not* be an actual copy of `foo`. In fact, GHC will not make
a deep copy of a structure unless you pattern match all the way down and
reconstruct it all the way back up yourself.
If you use a zipper, like Data.Tree.Zipper mentioned already, moving
around will not create and destroy tons of data. It will only create and
destroy the spine of the tree local to the current "pointer" into the
tree, which is not a lot of data. If you are holding on to older
versions of the zipper, of course, they won't even be destroyed.
- Jake
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