New Haskell Symposium paper on "twisted functors"

Satvik Chauhan, Piyush Kurur and I have a new paper which will appear at the 2016 Haskell Symposium in Japan:

How to Twist Pointers without Breaking Them

Although pointer manipulations are used as a primary motivating example, at heart the paper is really about “twisted functors”, a class of applicative functors which arise as a natural generalization of the semi-direct product of two monoids where one acts on the other. It’s a really cute idea¹, one of those ideas which seems “obvious” in retrospect, but really hadn’t been explored before.

We give some examples of applications in the paper but I’m quite certain there are many other examples of applications out there. If you find any, let us know!