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Recursion Schemes from Comonads

@article{Uustalu2001RecursionSF,
  title={Recursion Schemes from Comonads},
  author={Tarmo Uustalu and Varmo Vene and Alberto Pardo},
  journal={Nord. J. Comput.},
  year={2001},
  volume={8},
  pages={366-390}
}
Within the setting of the categorical approach to total functional programming, we introduce a "many-in-one" recursion scheme that neatly unifies a variety of seemingly diverging strengthenings of the basic recursion scheme of iteration. The new scheme is doubly generic: in addition to being parametric in a functor capturing the signature of an inductive type, it is also parametric in a comonad and a distributive law (of the functor over the comonad) that together encode the recursive call… 
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