Dear Vag,
Vag wrote:
To put in the nutshell, my point is that dag rewriting is better than
graph rewriting as `base' of pure functional programming languages
without manual proofs.
Better in the sense easier to reason about: I agree.
Better in the sense we do not need cycles: strongly disagree. There are
algorithms that only have a reasonable complexity/efficiency due to a
cycle. Without cycles we would need a more complex algorithm to mimic
the effect. Cycles are nor used every day, but they do occur in real
programs (not just Hamming numbers).
Consider a compiler that translates statements to machine instructions.
This compilers yields the statements as well as the actual address for
all labels used (in a tuple or record). These positions are feed to the
compiler in order to generate the correct jumps. You can do this very
elegantly with a cycle. If you cannot make this cycle you will probably
need a two stage solution.
Best, Pieter
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