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Add Gen.traverse combinator #294

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@n-osborne

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val traverse : ('a -> 'b Gen.t) -> 'a list -> 'b list Gen.t

Implementation proposition:

let rec traverse gen = function
  | [] -> pure []
  | x :: xs ->
      let* x = gen x and* xs = traverse gen xs in
      pure (x :: xs)

Or in short:

let traverse gen xs =
  let cons_f x xs = List.cons <$> gen x <*> xs in
  List.fold_right cons_f xs (pure [])

I had been in need for this particular combinator in a relatively specific case: when generating well-typed terms of a language with n-ary functions. The term generator takes a type from the object language, and when I wanted to generate a function call, I needed to generate a list of terms from a list of types from the object language.

But maybe there are other use-cases?

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