Re: binary search

1998-04-17 Thread Dave Tweed
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote: All that being said, we can say that there are certain properties that all haskell functions must fulfill. For example a recursive function should never call itself with the arguments that it recieved. e.g. myFunction 2 3 should not make

Re: binary search

1998-04-17 Thread Simon L Peyton Jones
Not to reject assertions (they would be welcome), but I think that you need something slightly different in a functional programming language. Assertions in procedural languages typically define system state before and after a particular function gets executed. State assertions are less

Re: binary search

1998-04-17 Thread Alex Ferguson
Various people write: Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I ask people to be careful to which haskell-list address(es) they followup to? My understanding is that list messages ought to be sent _only_ to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and that any other addresses are symptoms (and in some cases

gc-v2-170498 snapshot available

1998-04-17 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
For whoever's interested - new snapshot of Green Card is available which fixes a bug in the handling of %end declarations. ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/green-card/gc-v2-170498.tar.gz --Sigbjorn