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buildUnfold :: [a] -> Tree a
buildUnfold = unfold step
where
step [] = error "build: empty input"
step [x] = Left x
step xs = Right (split (length xs `div` 2) xs)On a singleton seed,
unfold produces the same leaf as build; on a longer finite seed, it recursively builds the same two pieces. Induction on input length proves buildUnfold = build on finite nonempty inputs. The empty-input qualification remains essential: a tree unfold cannot supply a missing empty-tree constructor.Use the source's constructor order: left subtree, root value, right subtree.A tree fold replaces the two constructors by an algebra on already folded children. A tree unfold expands a seed either into the empty tree or into a root value and two new seeds. The definitions themselves work on arbitrary binary trees; preserving the binary search tree ordering requires the supplied algebra or seed expansion to respect its bounds.
data Tree a = Tree (Tree a) a (Tree a) | Empty
foldTree :: (b -> a -> b -> b) -> b -> Tree a -> b
foldTree node empty Empty = empty
foldTree node empty (Tree l x r) =
node (foldTree node empty l) x (foldTree node empty r)
unfoldTree :: (s -> Maybe (s,a,s)) -> s -> Tree a
unfoldTree next seed = case next seed of
Nothing -> Empty
Just (ls,x,rs) ->
Tree (unfoldTree next ls) x (unfoldTree next rs)