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# Profunctor Optics in Idris2
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This package provides utilities for working with lenses, prisms, traversals,
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and other optics in Idris. This library uses *profunctor optics*.
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Eventually, this library will also include elaboration scripts to automatically
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generate lenses for a particular datatype.
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## Comparisons
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This library is inspired by the Haskell libraries [lens](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-5.2.2),
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[optics](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/optics) and [fresnel](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/fresnel),
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along with the Purescript library [purescript-profunctor-lenses](https://pursuit.purescript.org/packages/purescript-profunctor-lenses/8.0.0).
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Different design decisions are taken from each library.
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Like `lens`, this library comes "batteries-included" with many useful lenses for
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common types. It also includes the many lens operators. Like `optics`, `fresnel`
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and `purescript-profunctor-lenses`, but unlike `lens`, this library uses
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profunctor optics as opposed to van Laarhoven optics.
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Like `lens` and `fresnel`, this library defines optics through type synonyms and
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uses the `(.)` operator to compose them. Like `fresnel`, and unlike `lens`,
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this library goes to some effort to ensure that type signatures and error
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messages are understandable to some degree.
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This library's optics hierarchy is most similar to that of `fresnel`, though it
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also includes the `Equality` optic from `lens`. Unlike `fresnel`, this library also
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supports indexed optics.
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## Installation
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This package depends on the `profunctors` package. It can be installed from `pack`
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or from its GitHub repository [here](https://github.com/kiana-S/idris2-profunctors).
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To install using `idris2` directly:
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``` sh
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git clone https://github.com/kiana-S/idris2-lens
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cd idris2-lens
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idris2 --install lens.ipkg
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```
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Or you can install using [pack](https://github.com/stefan-hoeck/idris2-pack):
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``` sh
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pack install lens
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```
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