diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (c) 2016, Carter Tazio Schonwald
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
+met:
+
+1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+   documentation and/or other materials provided with the
+   distribution.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
+"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
+A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
+OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
+SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
+DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
+THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
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+# Resin : High performance Planar (2D) Variable binders
+
+Resin is an experiment in variable binder design inspired by binder libraries
+such as Bound and UnBound (no relation), with the goal being to provide
+high performance and excellent abstraction on as large a space of syntaxes as
+is feasible.
+
+
+
diff --git a/resin.cabal b/resin.cabal
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+-- Initial resin.cabal generated by cabal init.  For further documentation,
+--  see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
+
+-- The name of the package.
+name:                resin
+
+-- The package version.  See the Haskell package versioning policy (PVP)
+-- for standards guiding when and how versions should be incremented.
+-- http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy
+-- PVP summary:      +-+------- breaking API changes
+--                   | | +----- non-breaking API additions
+--                   | | | +--- code changes with no API change
+version:             0.1.0.0
+
+-- A short (one-line) description of the package.
+synopsis:            High performance variable binders
+
+-- A longer description of the package.
+description: High Performance Variable Binders library
+
+-- URL for the project homepage or repository.
+homepage:            http://github.com/cartazio/resin
+
+
+-- The license under which the package is released.
+license:             BSD2
+
+-- The file containing the license text.
+license-file:        LICENSE
+
+-- The package author(s).
+author:              Carter Tazio Schonwald
+
+-- An email address to which users can send suggestions, bug reports, and
+-- patches.
+maintainer:          carter at wellposed dot com
+
+-- A copyright notice.
+-- copyright:
+
+category:            Language
+
+build-type:          Simple
+
+
+
+-- Extra files to be distributed with the package, such as examples or a
+-- README.
+extra-source-files:  readme.md
+
+
+
+-- Constraint on the version of Cabal needed to build this package.
+cabal-version:       >=1.10
+
+source-repository head
+  type: git
+  location: https://github.com/cartazio/ralist.git
+
+library
+  -- Modules exported by the library.
+  exposed-modules:
+                      -- Resin
+
+                      -- ,
+                      Resin.Binders.Tree
+
+                   --   ,Resin.Calculus.Derivatives
+
+                    --  ,Resin.Environment.Class
+
+  -- Modules included in this library but not exported.
+  -- other-modules:
+
+  -- LANGUAGE extensions used by modules in this package.
+  -- other-extensions:
+
+  -- Other library packages from which modules are imported.
+  build-depends:      base >=4.8 && <4.11
+                      ,ghc-prim >= 0.4 && < 0.6
+                      ,semigroupoids >= 5.0 && <  5.3
+
+
+  -- Directories containing source files.
+  hs-source-dirs:      src
+  if impl(ghc >= 8.0) && impl(ghc < 8.2)
+    ghc-options: -Wcompat -Wnoncanonical-monad-instances -Wnoncanonical-monadfail-instances
+  if impl(ghc >= 8.0) && impl(ghc < 8.2)
+    ghc-options: -Wno-redundant-constraints
+  else
+    -- provide/emulate `Control.Monad.Fail` and `Data.Semigroups` API for pre-GHC8
+    build-depends: fail == 4.9.*, semigroups == 0.18.*
+  ghc-options: -Wall
+  -- Base language which the package is written in.
+  default-language:    Haskell2010
+
diff --git a/src/Resin/Binders/Tree.hs b/src/Resin/Binders/Tree.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts,FlexibleInstances,GADTs,DataKinds, PolyKinds, KindSignatures #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TypeInType #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-}
+
+module Resin.Binders.Tree where
+import Data.Kind
+import Numeric.Natural
+import Data.Semigroupoid
+--import Data.Coerce
+import Unsafe.Coerce (unsafeCoerce)
+import Data.Type.Equality
+--import qualified Data.Semigroupoid.Dual as DL
+
+
+{-
+This module models binders which respect scope having a tree shaped topology
+or at least it models some ideas about (finite?) paths on  (finite??!) trees
+
+-}
+
+
+data IxEq :: (k -> Type ) -> k -> k   -> Type where
+   PolyRefl ::  IxEq f i i
+   MonoRefl :: forall f i . f i -> IxEq f i i
+
+--testIxEquality :: TestEquality f => IxEq f a b -> IxEq f b c ->
+
+instance TestEquality f => TestEquality (IxEq f i) where
+  testEquality (MonoRefl f1) (MonoRefl f2) = testEquality f1 f2
+  testEquality (PolyRefl  )(MonoRefl _f2) = Just Refl
+  testEquality (MonoRefl _f1) (PolyRefl  ) = Just Refl
+  testEquality (PolyRefl ) (PolyRefl ) = Just Refl
+
+{- | `Inject` is about
+
+-}
+data Inject :: (k -> Type ) -> k -> k -> Type where
+  InjectRefl :: forall f a b . IxEq f a b->  Inject f a b
+  --MonoId :: forall f  i .  (f i) -> Inject f i i
+  -- should MonoId be strict in its argument?
+  CompactCompose :: forall f i j . (IxEq f i i) -> (IxEq f  j j  )  -> Natural -> Inject f i j
+   -- i is origin/root
+   -- j is leaf
+  -- compact compose is unsafe for users, but should be exposed in a .Internal
+  -- module
+
+
+
+instance Semigroupoid (Inject f) where
+   --PolyId `o`  PolyId =  PolyId
+   (InjectRefl (MonoRefl _p)) `o` (!f) = f
+   (InjectRefl (PolyRefl)) `o`  (!f) = f
+   (CompactCompose in1 out1 size) `o` (InjectRefl  (PolyRefl)) = CompactCompose  in1 out1 size
+   (CompactCompose in1 out1 size) `o` (InjectRefl  (MonoRefl !_p)) = CompactCompose  in1 out1 size
+   (CompactCompose _cmiddle2 cout sizeleft)
+    `o` (CompactCompose cin _cmiddle1 sizeright) = CompactCompose cin cout (sizeright + sizeleft)
+      --- TODO is this case to lazy?
+
+-- extract is the dual of Inject
+-- aka Data.Semigroupoid.Dual is nearly the exact same type :)
+newtype Extract :: (k -> Type ) -> k -> k -> Type where
+  Dual :: ((Inject f) b a ) -> Extract f a b
+-- not sure if this is the right design vs
+  -- :: Inject f b a -> Extract f a b  --- (which has more explicit duality and less newtypery)
+
+
+instance Semigroupoid (Extract f) where
+  o = \ (Dual l)  (Dual r) -> Dual  $  r `o` l
+
+
+data TreeEq :: (k -> Type ) -> k -> k -> Type where
+  TreeInject :: Inject f a b -> TreeEq f a b
+  TreeExtract :: Extract f a b -> TreeEq f a b
+  TreeRefl :: TreeEq f c c
+
+
+--- this might limit a,c to being kind (or sort?) * / Type for now, but thats OK ??
+treeElimination :: TestEquality f => Inject f a b -> Extract f  b  c->  (TreeEq f a c)
+treeElimination (InjectRefl PolyRefl) (Dual  (InjectRefl PolyRefl)) =  TreeRefl
+treeElimination (InjectRefl (MonoRefl _p1)) (Dual  (InjectRefl PolyRefl)) =  TreeRefl
+treeElimination (InjectRefl PolyRefl) (Dual  (InjectRefl (MonoRefl _p2))) =  TreeRefl
+treeElimination (InjectRefl (MonoRefl _p1)) (Dual (InjectRefl(MonoRefl _p2))) =  TreeRefl
+treeElimination (CompactCompose fa _fb1 n1) (Dual (CompactCompose fc _fb2 n2)) =
+         case (compare n1 n2, max n1 n2 - min n1 n2) of
+                        (EQ, _ )-> (unsafeCoerce TreeRefl) :: TreeEq f a c
+                          --- if the path is zero length they must be equal!
+                          --- AUDIT MEEEE
+                        (GT, m )->  TreeInject (CompactCompose fa fc  m)
+                        (LT, m ) -> TreeExtract (Dual (CompactCompose fc fa m))
+treeElimination   (InjectRefl p@(PolyRefl))
+                  d@(Dual (CompactCompose _fc _fb _n)) = treeElimination (CompactCompose p p 0) d
+treeElimination   (InjectRefl p@(MonoRefl _))
+                  d@(Dual (CompactCompose _fc _fb _n)) = treeElimination (CompactCompose p p 0) d
+treeElimination   d@( CompactCompose _fc _fb _n)
+                  (Dual (InjectRefl p@(PolyRefl))) = treeElimination d (Dual (CompactCompose p p 0))
+treeElimination   d@(CompactCompose _fc _fb _n)
+                  (Dual (InjectRefl p@(MonoRefl _))) = treeElimination d (Dual (CompactCompose p p 0))
+
