Re: [Haskell-cafe] meaning of "referential transparency"

2013-04-06 Thread Sergey Bushnyak
On 04/06/2013 08:43 PM, Henning Thielemann wrote: Can someone enlighten me about the origin of the term "referential transparency"? I can lookup the definition of "referential transparency" in the functional programming sense in the Haskell Wiki and I can lookup the meaning of "reference" and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] meaning of "referential transparency"

2013-04-06 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
Should probably include the Reddit convo ongoing as we speak (zomg, it's live!): http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1bsitm/lazy_io_breaks_equational_reasoning/ Not everyone here is a regular there. -- Kim-Ee On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Eli Frey wrote: > Links > > SO: > http://stacko

Re: [Haskell-cafe] meaning of "referential transparency"

2013-04-06 Thread Edsko de Vries
I have quite a detailed discussion of this concept, and related concepts, in Section 2.8 of my PhD thesis ( https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Edsko.de.Vries/pub/MakingUniquenessTypingLessUnique-screen.pdf ). -E On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote: > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Henning T

Re: [Haskell-cafe] meaning of "referential transparency"

2013-04-06 Thread Eli Frey
Links SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210835/what-is-referential-transparency Reddit discussions of said SO question. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/x8rr6/uday_reddy_on_referential_transparency_and_fp/ http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/xgq27/uday_reddy_sharpens_up_refere

Re: [Haskell-cafe] meaning of "referential transparency"

2013-04-06 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote: > Can someone enlighten me about the origin of the term "referential > transparency"? I can lookup the definition of "referential transparency" in > the functional programming sense in the Haskell Wiki and I can lookup the > meaning of "re

Re: [Haskell-cafe] meaning of "referential transparency"

2013-04-06 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
* Henning Thielemann [2013-04-06 19:43:45+0200] > > Can someone enlighten me about the origin of the term "referential > transparency"? I can lookup the definition of "referential > transparency" in the functional programming sense in the Haskell Wiki > and I can lookup the meaning of "reference"

[Haskell-cafe] meaning of "referential transparency"

2013-04-06 Thread Henning Thielemann
Can someone enlighten me about the origin of the term "referential transparency"? I can lookup the definition of "referential transparency" in the functional programming sense in the Haskell Wiki and I can lookup the meaning of "reference" and "transparency" in a dictionary, but I don't know