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name: collimator description: Guide for using Collimator, a profunctor optics library for Lean 4. Use when writing code with lenses, prisms, traversals, or when accessing/modifying nested data structures.

Collimator Optics Library

Overview

Collimator is a profunctor optics library for Lean 4. Optics provide composable, type-safe access patterns for nested data structures.

Imports

Copyimport Collimator.Prelude      -- Core optic types and operations
import Collimator.Operators    -- Haskell-style operators
import Collimator.Combinators  -- Advanced combinators
import Collimator.Instances    -- Instances for List, Option, String

open Collimator
open scoped Collimator.Operators  -- Enable operator syntax

Optic Types

Operators

Copydata ^. optic           -- View (Lens, Iso)
data ^? optic           -- Preview optional (Prism, AffineTraversal)
data ^.. optic          -- Collect all (Traversal)
data & optic %~ f       -- Modify with function
data & optic .~ value   -- Set value

Creating Optics

Lenses (struct fields)

Copystructure Person where
  name : String
  age : Nat

-- Preferred: use fieldLens% macro
def nameLens : Lens' Person String := fieldLens% Person name

Prisms (sum type constructors)

Copyinductive JsonValue
  | str : String → JsonValue
  | num : Int → JsonValue

-- Preferred: use ctorPrism% macro
def strPrism : Prism' JsonValue String := ctorPrism% JsonValue.str

-- For Option.some
def somePrism (α : Type) : Prism' (Option α) α := ctorPrism% Option.some

Composition

Optics compose with ∘. Use optic% for type annotations:

Copy-- Lens ∘ Prism = AffineTraversal
let emailAffine := optic%
  userProfileLens ∘ somePrism Profile ∘ emailLens
  : AffineTraversal' User String

user ^? emailAffine              -- Option String
user & emailAffine %~ toUpper    -- Modify if present

Common Patterns

Filtering

Copy[-1, 2, -3, 4] & filteredList (· > 0) %~ (· * 2)  -- [-1, 4, -3, 8]

List operations

Copy[1, 2, 3] ^? _head                    -- some 1
[1, 2, 3, 4] & taking 2 %~ (· * 10)   -- [10, 20, 3, 4]

Bifunctors

Copy(3, 5) & both %~ (· * 2)  -- (6, 10)

Built-in Instances

• List: traversed, itraversed, atLens, ix
• Option: somePrism' α, traversed
• String: chars (Iso), traversed
• Tuples: _1, _2