Say I've got f :: u -> v -> w
and g :: x -> y -> z
. What I want is h :: (u,x) -> (v,y) -> (w,z)
.
So I could go about this manually:
h (u,x) (v,y) = (f u v, g x y)
But where's the fun in that?
Using (***)
I can get partway there:
(f *** g) :: (u,x) -> (v -> w, y -> z)
But I can't figure out how to get that final mile.
(***) :: (Arrow a) => a b c -> a b' c' -> a (b, b') (c, c')
So specialize a to ->
and we get:
(***) :: (Arrow a) => (b -> c) -> (b' -> c') -> (b, b') -> (c, c')
And that's great, except we want to, for whatever reason, take the first two arguments as a single pair instead. But that's easy, we just uncurry.
Prelude Control.Arrow> :t uncurry (***)
uncurry (***) :: (Arrow a) => (a b c, a b' c') -> a (b, b') (c, c')
And if you specialize the a
again, you should see the type signature you were looking for.