Re: Expression power of Haskell

1999-05-04 Thread Hans Aberg
At 16:01 +0100 1999/05/04, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: >...what I *really need* from Haskell is the possibility to >*code* something efficiently, and not just to represent it. > >Saying that an operator is commutative does not help me, unless I have >some ways to change the argument order to optimiz

Expression power of Haskell

1999-05-04 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Hans Aberg commenting Wolfram Kahl: > For expressing algebraic relations, I think one can use universal algebra > by factoring through the free universal algebra of a particular set of > relations. For example, if one wants to state that a binary operator is > commutative, one can say that is sh