Modules Over Monads and Their Algebras

Authors Maciej Pirog, Nicolas Wu, Jeremy Gibbons



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Maciej Pirog
Nicolas Wu
Jeremy Gibbons

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Maciej Pirog, Nicolas Wu, and Jeremy Gibbons. Modules Over Monads and Their Algebras. In 6th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 35, pp. 290-303, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CALCO.2015.290

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Modules over monads (or: actions of monads on endofunctors) are structures in which a monad interacts with an endofunctor, composed either on the left or on the right. Although usually not explicitly identified as such, modules appear in many contexts in programming and semantics. In this paper, we investigate the elementary theory of modules. In particular, we identify the monad freely generated by a right module as a generalisation of Moggi's resumption monad and characterise its algebras, extending previous results by Hyland, Plotkin and Power, and by Filinski and Stovring. Moreover, we discuss a connection between modules and algebraic effects: left modules have a similar feeling to Eilenberg–Moore algebras, and can be seen as handlers that are natural in the variables, while right modules can be seen as functions that run effectful computations in an appropriate context (such as an initial state for a stateful computation).

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  • monad
  • module over monad
  • algebraic data types
  • resumptions
  • free object

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