Monadic Maps and Folds for Arbitrary Datatypes

Abstract

Each datatype constructor comes equiped not only with a so-called map and fold (<i>catamorphism</i>), as is widely known, but, under some condition, also with a kind of map and fold that are related to an arbitrary given monad.\ud \ud This result follows from the preservation of initiality under lifting from the category of algebras in a given category to a certain other category of algebras in the Kleisli category related to the monad