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fold is the primitive function for consuming Lists

If you treat the list [ x, y, z ] as cons x (cons y (cons z nil)), then a fold just replaces each cons and nil with something else

Examples

  fold
Natural
[ 2, 3, 5 ]
Text
(λ(x : Natural) → λ(y : Text) → Natural/show x ++ y)
"0"
≡ "2350"

Source

{-|
`fold` is the primitive function for consuming `List`s

If you treat the list `[ x, y, z ]` as `cons x (cons y (cons z nil))`, then a
`fold` just replaces each `cons` and `nil` with something else
-}
let fold
: ∀(a : Type) →
List a →
∀(list : Type) →
∀(cons : a → list → list) →
∀(nil : list) →
list
= List/fold

let example0 =
assert
: fold
Natural
[ 2, 3, 5 ]
Text
(λ(x : Natural) → λ(y : Text) → Natural/show x ++ y)
"0"
≡ "2350"

let example1 =
λ(nil : Text) →
assert
: fold
Natural
[ 2, 3, 5 ]
Text
(λ(x : Natural) → λ(y : Text) → Natural/show x ++ y)
nil
≡ "2" ++ ("3" ++ ("5" ++ nil))

let example2 =
λ(cons : Natural → Text → Text) →
λ(nil : Text) →
assert
: fold Natural [ 2, 3, 5 ] Text cons nilcons 2 (cons 3 (cons 5 nil))

in fold