bsc-leon-vatthauer/slides/sections/00_intro.tex

\begin{frame}[t, fragile]{Partiality in Haskell}{}
Haskell allows users to define arbitrary partial functions, some can be spotted easily by their definition:
\begin{lstlisting}[language=haskell]
head :: [a] -> a
head [] = error "empty list"
head (x:xs) = x
\end{lstlisting}

% TODO right of this add error bubble that shows what happens for `head []`

others might be more subtle:

\begin{lstlisting}[language=haskell]
reverse l = rev l []
where
  rev []     a = a
  rev (x:xs) a = rev xs (x:a)
\end{lstlisting}
% TODO right of this add error bubble that shows `reverse ones`
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[t, fragile]{Partiality in Agda}{The Maybe Monad}
In Agda every function has to be total and terminating, so how do we model partial functions?

\begin{lstlisting}
data Maybe (A : Set) : Set where
  just : A $\rightarrow$ Maybe A
  nothing : Maybe A
\end{lstlisting}

for head we can then do:

\begin{lstlisting}
head : $\forall$ A $\rightarrow$ List A $\rightarrow$ Maybe A
head nil = nothing
head (cons x xs) = just x
\end{lstlisting}

But what about \lstinline|reverse|?
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\begin{frame}[t, fragile]{Partiality in Agda}{Capretta's Delay Monad}
Capretta's Delay Monad is a coinductive data type whose inhabitants can be viewed as suspended computations. 
\begin{lstlisting}
data Delay (A : Set) : Set where
  now : A $\rightarrow$ Delay A
  later : $\infty$ (Delay A) $\rightarrow$ Delay A
\end{lstlisting}
\lstinline|now| lifts a computation, while \lstinline|later| delays it by one time unit.

The delay datatype contains a constant for non-termination:
\begin{lstlisting}
never : Delay A
never = later ($\sharp$ never)
\end{lstlisting}

and we can define a function for \textit{running} a computation (for some amount of steps):

\begin{lstlisting}
run_for_steps : Delay A $\rightarrow$ $\mathbb{N}$ $\rightarrow$ Delay A
run now   x for n     steps = now x
run later x for zero  steps = later x
run later x for suc n steps = run $\flat$ x for n steps

\end{lstlisting}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[t, fragile]{Partiality in Agda}{Reversing (possibly infinite) lists}
\begin{lstlisting}
foldl : $\forall$ {A B : Set} $\rightarrow$ (A $\rightarrow$ B $\rightarrow$ A) $\rightarrow$ A $\rightarrow$ Colist B $\rightarrow$ Delay A
foldl c n [] = now n
foldl c n (x $\squaredots$ xs) = later ($\sharp$ foldl c (c n x) ($\flat$ xs))

reverse : $\forall$ {A : Set} $\rightarrow$ Colist A $\rightarrow$ Delay (Colist A)
reverse {A} = reverseAcc []
  where
    reverseAcc : Colist A $\rightarrow$ Colist A $\rightarrow$ Delay (Colist A)
    reverseAcc = foldl ($\lambda$ xs x $\rightarrow$ x $\squaredots$ ($\sharp$ xs)) -- 'flip _$\squaredots$_' with extra steps
\end{lstlisting}
\end{frame}