Re: [Haskell-cafe] why the name lambda calculus?

2011-08-24 Thread Dominic Mulligan
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 14:01 +0100, Tony Finch wrote: Ezra Cooper e...@ezrakilty.net wrote: I believe this to be a general trait of things described as calculi--that they have some form of name-binders, but I have never seen that observation written down. Combinator calculi are a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Verifying Haskell programs vs. generating verified Haskell programs

2011-06-22 Thread Dominic Mulligan
I'm no expert with compcert, but as I understand it their approach is to only do semantic preserving changes to the program at each step in the translation from C source to binary. I'm not sure what they used as their specification of C and it seems like the correctness of their approach would

[Haskell-cafe] Writing functions over GADTs

2011-03-16 Thread Dominic Mulligan
of the properties that polymorphic variants enjoy, so perhaps the answer lies there? Any help gratefully received. Regards, Dominic Mulligan ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: theoremquest-0.0.0

2011-03-01 Thread Dominic Mulligan
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 19:37 -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: But what I miss when using these proof assistants, and what I have my eyes on, is a way to Search ALL The Theorems. In current proof assistants, developments are still distributed in packages -- and a particular development might have