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Functional Argument Accumulator

Applicative style argument accumulator functions inspired by the FParsec.Pipes library. It works by weaving a single continuation argument like a chain, kind of like the pipe function of FParsec but with a arbitrary number of arguments.

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// Argument accumulator inspired by FParsec.Pipes
    
type Result<'a,'b> = Succ of 'b | Fail of 'a

let a = Succ "asd"
let b = Succ 2
let c = Succ 'a'

let start a = 
    match a with
    | Succ a -> (fun k -> k a) |> Succ
    | Fail x -> Fail x

let next b a = 
    match a with
    | Succ a ->
        match b with
        | Succ b -> a |> (fun x k -> x k b) |> Succ
        | Fail x -> Fail x
    | Fail x -> Fail x

let fin k a =
    match a with
    | Succ a -> Succ <| a k
    | Fail x -> Fail x

let r: Result<string,_> = 
    start a |> next b |> next c
    |> fin (fun a b c -> c)

union case Result.Succ: 'b -> Result<'a,'b>

union case Result.Fail: 'a -> Result<'a,'b>

val a : Result<'a,string>

Full name: Script.a

val b : Result<'a,int>

Full name: Script.b

val c : Result<'a,char>

Full name: Script.c

val start : a:Result<'a,'b> -> Result<'a,(('b -> 'c) -> 'c)>

Full name: Script.start

val a : Result<'a,'b>

val a : 'b

val k : ('b -> 'c)

val x : 'a

val next : b:Result<'a,'b> -> a:Result<'a,('c -> 'b -> 'd)> -> Result<'a,('c -> 'd)>

Full name: Script.next

val b : Result<'a,'b>

val a : Result<'a,('c -> 'b -> 'd)>

val a : ('c -> 'b -> 'd)

val b : 'b

val x : ('c -> 'b -> 'd)

val k : 'c

val fin : k:'a -> a:Result<'b,('a -> 'c)> -> Result<'b,'c>

Full name: Script.fin

val k : 'a

val a : Result<'b,('a -> 'c)>

val a : ('a -> 'c)

val x : 'b

val r : Result<string,char>

Full name: Script.r

type Result<'a,'b> =
| Succ of 'b
| Fail of 'a

Full name: Script.Result<_,_>

Multiple items
val string : value:'T -> string

Full name: Microsoft.FSharp.Core.Operators.string

--------------------
type string = System.String

Full name: Microsoft.FSharp.Core.string

val a : string

val b : int

val c : char

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Link:	http://fssnip.net/7Sd
Posted:	7 years ago
Author:	Marko Grdinić
Tags:	combinators , continuation