Links
SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210835/what-is-referential-transparency
Reddit discussions of said SO question.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/x8rr6/uday_reddy_on_referential_transparency_and_fp/
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Eli Frey eli.lee.f...@gmail.com wrote:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/OverloadedLists comes to mind.
This assumes you can turn ANY list into a thing. Maps only make sense to
be constructed from association list. If I've got a [Char], how do I
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From: Eli Frey eli.lee.f...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] A Thought: Backus, FP, and Brute Force Learning
To: OWP owpmail...@gmail.com
I have not read Bacchus' paper, so i might be off the mark here.
Functional
I always forget to reply-all :(
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From: Eli Frey eli.lee.f...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] A Thought: Backus, FP, and Brute Force Learning
To: OWP owpmail...@gmail.com
Ah, ye old point free programming [1]. Yes
I began converting an unwieldy Makefile into a Haskell program via Shake,
hoping that I could increase both its readability and modularity. The
modularity has increased greatly, and I have found it exhilarating how much
more I can express about my dependencies. However, readability has
suffered.
I think it is always a good idea to learn languages that make
your-favorite-paradigm hard. There are a lot of Aha moments to be had
from forcing your brain to come at a problem from another angle.
As for things to watch out for.
There is a very strong duality between TypeClasses and existential
sorry, forgot to reply-all
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From: Eli Frey eli.lee.f...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Object Oriented programming for Functional
Programmers
To: Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com
Except not quite... [...] It's
Greetings,
(x-posted from /r/haskell)
I am calling for any interested parties to come together and help me get a
SEA HUG going. My boss has offered to provide facilities and foods. I don't
think he's expecting much, maybe we can make him second guess the offer :P.
I have put together a meetup
