------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- The Agda standard library -- -- Example use case for a fresh list: sorted list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ {-# OPTIONS --sized-types #-} module README.Data.List.Fresh where open import Data.Nat open import Data.List.Base open import Data.List.Fresh open import Data.List.Relation.Unary.AllPairs as AllPairs using (AllPairs) open import Data.Product.Base using (_,_; proj₁; proj₂) open import Relation.Nary using (⌊_⌋; fromWitness) -- A sorted list of natural numbers can be seen as a fresh list -- where the notion of freshness is being smaller than all the -- existing entries SortedList : Set SortedList = List# ℕ _<_ _ : SortedList _ = cons 0 (cons 1 (cons 3 (cons 10 [] _) (s≤s (s≤s (s≤s (s≤s z≤n))) , _)) (s≤s (s≤s z≤n) , s≤s (s≤s z≤n) , _)) (s≤s z≤n , s≤s z≤n , s≤s z≤n , _) -- Clearly, writing these by hand can pretty quickly become quite cumbersome -- Luckily, if the notion of freshness we are using is decidable, we can -- make most of the proofs inferrable by using the erasure of the relation -- rather than the relation itself! -- We call this new type *I*SortedList because all the proofs will be implicit. ISortedList : Set ISortedList = List# ℕ ⌊ _<?_ ⌋ -- The same example is now much shorter. It looks pretty much like a normal list -- except that we know for sure that it is well ordered. ins : ISortedList ins = 0 ∷# 1 ∷# 3 ∷# 10 ∷# [] -- Indeed we can extract the support list together with a proof that it -- is ordered thanks to the combined action of toList converting a fresh -- list to a pair of a list and a proof and fromWitness which "unerases" -- a proof. ns : List ℕ ns = proj₁ (toList ins) sorted : AllPairs _<_ ns sorted = AllPairs.map (fromWitness _<_ _<?_) (proj₂ (toList ins)) -- See the following module for an applied use-case of fresh lists open import README.Data.Trie.NonDependent