From: "Michaël Grünewald" <michael.grunewald@laposte.net>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Categories for types
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:08:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204103280.10964.16.camel@Llea.celt.neu> (raw)
Dear OCaml folks,
I am an happy OCaml amateur programmer since many years now, and I ever
wondered why the language has ``functors'' --- I was puzzled by the
name.
My curiosity had a renewal when I found this book in the math department
library: Categories for types, by Crole. Before checking the book out, I
would like to know if the term ``functor'' was chosen because they are
actually functors. Maybe someone can also suggests other readings to me.
(I have a strong math education, although I am not used to work with
categories.)
--
Cheers,
Michaël
next reply other threads:[~2008-02-27 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-27 9:08 Michaël Grünewald [this message]
2008-02-27 13:38 ` [Caml-list] " Gabriel Kerneis
2008-02-27 20:08 ` Michaël Grünewald
2008-02-27 14:19 ` Pierre-Evariste Dagand
2008-02-27 20:16 ` Michaël Grünewald
2008-02-28 8:57 ` Axel Poigné
2008-02-27 21:04 Damien Guichard
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