Hi Eric
A spreadsheet is an indexed / tabular structure which doesn't map well
to Haskell's built-in way of defining data - algebraic types - which
are trees via sums and products.
Wolfram Kahl has a paper on modelling tables in Haskell Compositional
Syntax and Semantics of Tables which might be
Hi,
Eric Rasmussen wrote:
The spreadsheet analogy isn't too literal as I'll be using this for data
with a more regular structure. For instance, one grid might have 3 columns
where every item in column one is a CellStr, every item in column two a
CellStr, and every item in column 3 a CellDbl,
Stephen, thanks for the link! The paper was an interesting read and
definitely gave me some ideas.
Tillmann -- you are correct in that it's very similar to a database.
I frequently go through this process:
1) Receive a flat file (various formats) of tabular data
2) Create a model of the data
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Eric Rasmussen ericrasmus...@gmail.comwrote:
Stephen, thanks for the link! The paper was an interesting read and
definitely gave me some ideas.
Tillmann -- you are correct in that it's very similar to a database.
I frequently go through this process:
1)
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Eric Rasmussen ericrasmus...@gmail.com
wrote:
Stephen, thanks for the link! The paper was an interesting read and
definitely gave me some ideas.
Tillmann -- you are correct in that it's very similar to a database.
I frequently go through this process:
1) Receive
Thanks! I think GADTs may work nicely for this project, so I'm going to
start building it out.
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Alexander Solla alex.so...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Eric Rasmussen
ericrasmus...@gmail.comwrote:
Stephen, thanks for the link! The paper
