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\chapter{Conclusion}
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This thesis highlighted some of issues with the standard inductive definition of
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propositional equality used in Agda. Functional extensionality and univalence
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are two examples not admissible in Intensional Type Theory (ITT). This issue is
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overcome with an extension to Agda's type system called Cubical Agda. With
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Cubical Agda both functional extensionality and univalence are admissible.
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Cubical Agda is more expressive, but there are certain issues that arise that
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are not present in standard Agda. For one thing ITT and standard Agda enjoys
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Uniqueness of Identity Proofs (UIP). This is not the case in Cubical Agda. In
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stead there exists a hierarchy of types with increasing \nomen{homotopical
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structure}. It turns out to be useful to built the formalization with this in
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mind as it can simplify proofs considerably. Another issue one must overcome in
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Cubical Agda is when a type has a field whose type depends on a previous field.
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In this case paths between such types will be heterogeneous paths which in
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practice turns out to be considerably more difficult to work with than
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homogeneous paths. The thesis also demonstrated how to use appropriate
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abstraction techniques for dealing with this, such as based path-induction.
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This thesis formalized some of the core concepts from category theory including;
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categories, functors, products, exponentials, Cartesian closed categories,
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natural transformations, the yoneda embedding and monads. Category theory is an
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interesting case-study for the application of Cubical Agda for two reasons in
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particular: Because category theory is the study of abstract algebra of
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functions, meaning that functional extensionality is particularly relevant.
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Another reason is that in category theory it is commonplace to identity
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isomorphic structures and univalence allows us to make this notion precise. The
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thesis also demonstrated another technique that is common in category theory;
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namely to define categories to prove properties of other structures.
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Specifically a category was defined to demonstrate that any two product objects
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in a category are isomorphic. Furthermore the thesis showed two formulations of
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monads and proved that they indeed are equivalent: Namely monoidal- and Kleisli-
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monads. The monoidal formulation is more typical to category theoretic
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formulations and the Kleisli formulation will be more familiar to functional
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programmers. In the formulation we also saw how paths can be used to extract
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functions. A path between two types induce an isomorphism between the two types.
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This e.g. permits developers to write a monad instance for a given type using
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the Kleisli formulation. By transporting this formulation to become a monoidal
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monad one can reuse all results about monoidal monads on the Kleisli
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formulation.
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%% problem with inductive type
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%% overcome with cubical
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%% the path type
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%% homotopy levels
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%% depdendent paths
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%% category theory
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%% algebra of functions ~ funExt
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%% identify isomorphic types ~ univalence
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%% using categories to prove properties
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%% computational properties
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%% reusability, compositional
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