Re: Confused about seq and forms.

2002-04-12 Thread Jay Cox
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Bernard James POPE wrote: > Do you have a copy of the book: The implementation of Functional Programming > Languages, by Simon Peyton Jones? > > It is sadly out of print, but most universities have copies in their libraries. > > It is one of the best references that I know

trying to tie the knot

2002-04-12 Thread oleg
Hello! Hal Daume III wrote: [description of a parsing problem that involves forward references] Forward references is the problem. To properly solve it, you have to find a fixpoint. The best way to avoid hitting the bottom is to make sure that the fixpoint combinator is applied to a function. H

trying to tie the knot

2002-04-12 Thread Hal Daume III
Hi All, I thought I was starting to get my head around the whole tying the knot phenomenon, but when my program produced "*** Exception: <>" I figured I was probably missing something :). Here's what I'm trying to do (I know I could do it without tying the knot, but that seemed like a reasonable

Haskell Report: minor error

2002-04-12 Thread Ralf Hinze
Hi Simon, minor error in the Report: Figure 5 that displays the hierarchy of Haskell classes defined in the Prelude also includes the MonadPlus class, which, however, is defined in Monad. Cheers, Ralf ___ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://