Before we go abtract, we’re going to look at some concrete categories. This is actually a good thing, since we only saw one category yesterday.
The category of sets and total functions are denoted by Sets written in bold.
In Scala, this can be encoded roughly as types and functions between them, such as Int => String. There’s apprently a philosophical debate on whether it is correct because programming languages admit bottom type (Nothing), exceptions, and non-terminating code. For the sake of convenience, I’m happy to ignore it for now and pretend we can encode Sets.
The category of all finite sets and total functions between them are called Setsfin.