[Haskell-cafe] Re: A few ideas about FRP and arbitrary access in time

2010-03-07 Thread sinelaw
On Mar 7, 1:01 am, Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:45 PM, sinelaw jones.noa...@gmail.com wrote: But isn't Lucid Synchrone essentially discrete-timed? Also, events Maybe reality itself can also be modeled using  discrete timesteps? If so, then a discrete

[Haskell-cafe] Re: A few ideas about FRP and arbitrary access in time

2010-03-03 Thread sinelaw
Well, my impression is that trying to unite events and behaviours in this manner is not the solution we're looking for. If you follow the WWRD principle, you have to forget about events as fundamental building blocks, because the concept of event is an abstraction over continuous phenomena.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: A few ideas about FRP and arbitrary access in time

2010-03-03 Thread sinelaw
On Mar 3, 10:50 pm, Donn Cave d...@avvanta.com wrote: Kind of a long shot, from what I can make out, but Timber might be interesting - Haskell-like programming language with a reactive model that supports time as a sort of event.  http://www.timber-lang.org/ Certainly not much like what we're