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Reducer typeclass

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Description

Reducers model append and prepend operations on Monoidal containers.

Described on slide 9 of this talk by Kmett

See also haskell lib: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/monoids-0.3.2/docs/Data-Monoid-Reducer.html#t:Reducer

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading slide 9 of Kmett's Introduction to Monoids talk and the linked Data-Monoid-Reducer documentation to understand the intended abstraction. Then inspect Cats' existing typeclass conventions and discuss the API and scope with maintainers; done requires an agreed design and corresponding implementation and tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
scala
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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