Patrick Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In "Rolling Your Own Mutable ADT: A Connection Between Linear Types
> and Monads", p. 1, Chen and Hudak write:
>
> There are few formal connections between monads and
> single-threaded state... For any state-transformer monad... there
> is
In "Rolling Your Own Mutable ADT: A Connection Between Linear Types
and Monads", p. 1, Chen and Hudak write:
There are few formal connections between monads and
single-threaded state... For any state-transformer monad... there
is a trivial operation... that will instantly destroy any
> In general laymen's terms, what are the performance and expressiveness
> issues in comparing monads with linear objects?
You may want to glance at the latest version of `How to Declare an
Imperative' (Computing Surveys, to appear), which explicitly makes
this comparison. It's available via my
I am stretching my imperative brain cells to comprehend(!) monads, and
now their relationship to linear ("unique" in Clean) objects. I have
glanced at Philip Wadler's paper, but the semantics are impenetrable
to me at this point, and I am looking at the issue from a more
"practical" point of view
