isabella232 / monocats

Monofunctor and similar instances for Scala Cats

Monocats

Monocats provides mono-functor and similar instances from mono-traversable for Scala developers using cats.

Installation

In build.sbt:

libraryDependencies += "com.thoughtbot" % "monocats_2.12" % "0.1.1"

Synopsis

Monocats provides mono instances which are similar to their cats counterparts, but don't allow the parameterized type to change during mapping, which allows instances to be defined for more types.

For example, you can't define a Functor instance for String, because String does not have a parameterized type, and mapping from a Char to an Int can't produce a new String. However, you can define a MonoFunctor instance, because mapping must preserve the Char type:

new MonoFunctor[String] {
  type Element = Char

  def map(string: String)(f: Char => Char): String = string.map(f)
}

Mono instances can also be defined or derived for value classes, which allows generic extracting, lifting, and mapping.

See the Scaladoc for more details.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Monocats is Copyright © 2017 thoughtbot. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.