Cartesian product traverse in scalaz

Question

In Eric Torreborre\'s blogpost on the paper Essence of the Iterator Pattern, he describes how the cartesian product of a traverse is also a traverse.

Can anyone show me

Answer 1

I'm adding my own answer, building on Jason's one, to show different ways of traversing the list:

import org.specs2._
import scalaz.std.anyVal._, scalaz.std.list._
import scalaz._, std.tuple._
import scalaz.{Monoid, Applicative}

class TraverseSpec extends mutable.Specification {

  implicit val Sum = Monoid[Int].applicative
  implicit val Concat = Monoid[List[String]].applicative
  implicit val A: Applicative[({type λ[α] = (Int, List[String])})#λ] = Sum.product[({type λ[α]=List[String]})#λ](Concat)
  val xs = List(1, 2, 3, 4)

  "traverse - by folding the list with a Monoid" >> {
    val (sum, text) = Foldable[List].foldMap(xs)(a => (a, List(a.toString + "Z")))
    (sum, text) === (10, List("1Z", "2Z","3Z", "4Z"))
  }
  "traverse - with a function returning a tuple" >> {
    val (sum, text) = A.traverse(xs)(a => (a, List(a.toString + "Z")))
    (sum, text.reverse) === (10, List("1Z", "2Z","3Z", "4Z"))
  }
  "traverse - with 2 functions and 2 traversals" >> {
    val count   = (a: Int) => a
    val collect = (a: Int) => List(a.toString+"Z")

    val sum  = Sum.traverse(xs)(count)
    val text = Concat.traverse(xs)(collect)

    (sum, text.reverse) === (10, List("1Z", "2Z","3Z", "4Z"))
  }
  "traverse - with 2 functions and 1 fused traversal" >> {
    val sum     = (a: Int) => a
    val collect = (a: Int) => List(a.toString+"Z")

    implicit def product[A, B, C](f: A => B): Product[A, B] = Product(f)
    case class Product[A, B](f: A => B) {
      def <#>[C](g: A => C) = (a: A) => (f(a), g(a))
    }

    val (total, text)  = A.traverse(xs)(sum <#> collect)
    (total, text.reverse) === (10, List("1Z", "2Z","3Z", "4Z"))
  }
}

I think that the last example shows what you're after: 2 independently defined functions which can be composed to do just one traversal.