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Would multiple-cursors editing be an apt comparison? :-)

• fho 4y ago
  Somewhat, but even my pointer analogy just scratches the surface. Filtering/selecting is big, but another interesting thing is that there are lenses (which I think are called prisms?) that only provide a view of something. Eg you have a text document in Unicode, select all words marching a certain pattern, and then look as if they were encoded in ASCII. (No idea why this would useful :-) ).
  • hither_shores 4y ago
    A "lens" that only provides a view of something is just a plain function. Prisms are first class constructors: a `Prism a b` can build a `b` from an `a`, or attempt to match on a `b` and `Maybe` get an `a` that could construct it.
    • fho 4y ago
      Hmm yes ... maybe the word "view" was not chosen well. It's more of a "there and back again" thing.