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Generic functional programming with types and relations

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Richard Bird ,
Oege De Moor  and
Paul Hoogendijk
Richard Bird
Affiliation:
Programming Research Group, Oxford University, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK
Oege De Moor
Affiliation:
Programming Research Group, Oxford University, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK
Paul Hoogendijk
Affiliation:
Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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A generic functional program is one which is parameterised by datatype. By installing specific choices, for example lists or trees, different programs are obtained that are, nevertheless, abstractly the same. The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility of deriving generic programs. Part of the theory of lists that deals with segments is recast as a theory about ‘segments’ in a wide class of datatypes, and then used to pose and solve a generic version of a well-known problem.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 1996 , pp. 1 - 28
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