[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Zippers on Wikibooks: teasing! :)

2009-07-16 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Peter Verswyvelen wrote: After my colleague explained me about zippers and how one could derive the datatype using differential rules, I had to read about it. So I started reading http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Zippers#Mechanical_Differentiation This page contains the sentence:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Zippers on Wikibooks: teasing! :)

2009-07-16 Thread Dougal Stanton
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Heinrich Apfelmusapfel...@quantentunnel.de wrote:   Generic Programming: An introduction   http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~patrikj/poly/afp98/ It's a bit verbose at times, but you only need the first few chapters to get an idea about polynomial functors (sums

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Zippers on Wikibooks: teasing! :)

2009-07-15 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Matthias Görgens matthias.goerg...@googlemail.com writes: doesn't make much sense to me yet, although I suspect I can read the mu as a lambda on types? Not really. The mu has more to do with recursion. I'd say it's entirely to do with recursion. It's like the Y combinator (or fix) for