Re: [Haskell-cafe] Backpatching

2007-08-01 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:44:32PM +1000, Thomas Conway wrote: This sounds like a common problem type. Is there a well known solution to this sort of problem? Mmm... logic programming? http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/claessen00typed.html You'll only need the code for logic-variables, and even

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Backpatching

2007-08-01 Thread Jim Burton
Derek Elkins wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 23:04 -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:44:32PM +1000, Thomas Conway wrote: This sounds like a common problem type. Is there a well known solution to this sort of problem? Mmm... logic programming?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Backpatching

2007-08-01 Thread Daniel McAllansmith
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 17:44, Thomas Conway wrote: This sounds like a common problem type. Is there a well known solution to this sort of problem? Have you looked into Tying the Knot? http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tying_the_Knot A simple example: module Knot where import Data.Char

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Backpatching

2007-08-01 Thread Thomas Conway
On 8/2/07, Daniel McAllansmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 01 August 2007 17:44, Thomas Conway wrote: This sounds like a common problem type. Is there a well known solution to this sort of problem? Have you looked into Tying the Knot?

[Haskell-cafe] Backpatching

2007-07-31 Thread Thomas Conway
Hi All, One of the things I've been working on lately is some ASN.1 stuff.One of the first things I wrote in Haskell was an ASN.1 parser. It only worked for a subset, and I'm revisiting it to make it handle a larger subset. One of the things that gets messy is that in lots of places you can put