Iowa Type Theory Commute

Reassembling datatypes from functors using a fixed-point


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Last episode we discussed how functors can describe a single level of a datatype.  In this episode, we discuss how to put these functors back together into a datatype, using disjoint unions of functors and a fixed-point datatype.  The latter expresses the idea that inductive data is built in any finite number of layers, where each layer is described by the functor for the datatype.

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Iowa Type Theory CommuteBy Aaron Stump

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