Problem with a Functor instance over the keys in Map from Data.Map
I'm trying to write Eric Kidd's and Sigfpe's code for a probability monad using Data.Map as a backend but I'm stuck with a Functor instance.
I have a data type which is a probability table:
newtype Prob f a = Prob {table :: Map a f}
which at each value for the variable of type a
associate is probability, which is of type Floating f => f
. The instance should be given by:
instance (Floating f) => Functor (Prob f) where
fmap f (Prob tab) = Prob (mapKeysWith (+) f tab)
but mapKeysWith
have typ开发者_StackOverflow社区e (Ord k2) => Map k1 a -> (a -> a -> a) -> (k1 -> k2) -> Map k2 a
. I have no way of enforcing the Ord
constraint in the instance, and so I have a type error.
Is there a simple way out of this?
Nothing simple, I'm afraid; it's a well known problem with Functor
(and Monad
). As usual, Oleg has a solution (for Set
, but Map
is solved the same way) if you can rewrite to use a replacement Functor
instance. (See also liboleg
on Hackage.)
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