sturch-encodings

Scala Typelevel Church Encodings

What ???

import sturch.nats._
import sturch.bools._

type x = Plus[`3`, `4`]
type y = Mult[`3`, `2`]
type `IsTypelevelProgrammingFun?` = Not[EQ[x, y]]
type result = If[`IsTypelevelProgrammingFun?`, Mult[x, y], Zero]

Why ???

For fun of course.

Seriously...

This repository contains an attempt to encode some structures(e.g. booleans and natural numbers) using only types. You can findout more by googling "type lambdas" and "Church encoding".

What is avilable?

This library is not published anywhere, because I see no point in using it. If thats a problem let me know and I will publish it to sonatype repository.

Inside you can find five packages:

sturch - definition of type lambda, type-to-value-level parser and printer for type lambdas
sturch.bools - encoding of booleans
sturch.nats - encoding of natural numbers
sturch.pairs - encoding of pair data structure(2-sized tuples)
sturch.lists - encoding of list data structure

How ???

All of the encoding is based on the Type Lambda abstraction which is defined like this:

  trait TL {
    type Apply[T <: TL] <: TL
  }

And some concrete functions can be encoded like this:

  type Identity = TL {
    type Apply[T <: TL] = T
  }