From: Michael Hicks <mwh@dsl.cis.upenn.edu>
To: skaller@ozemail.com.au (John Max Skaller)
Cc: checker@d6.com, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: practical functional programming
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:26:30 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200011062226.eA6MQV427710@codex.cis.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A056DD3.120401F3@ozemail.com.au> from "John Max Skaller" at Nov 6, 2000 01:25:23 am
> Depends on the application. Consider for example a browser in which
> when you hit the 'back' button, you want to go back to the same
> state as previously: with purely functional data structures attached
> to a state object, going back is a simple matter of popping the state
> object from a stack (and re-rendering :-)
>
> This is not so easy to do with a more extensively mutable state object.
There was a paper on just this topic in this year's ICFP. Check out:
The Influence of Browsers on Evaluators
http://youpou.lip6.fr/queinnec/Papers/webcont.ps.gz
Mike
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Michael Hicks
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*different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win.
*Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-06 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-03 22:44 Chris Hecker
2000-11-04 18:48 ` Chet Murthy
2000-11-05 14:25 ` John Max Skaller
2000-11-06 22:26 ` Michael Hicks [this message]
2000-11-06 6:55 ` Francisco Reyes
2000-11-06 13:16 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2000-11-06 18:15 ` Chris Hecker
2000-11-07 7:54 ` Stephan Houben
2000-11-11 14:32 ` John Max Skaller
2000-11-12 13:17 ` Ken Wakita
2000-11-12 20:09 ` John Max Skaller
2000-11-13 0:19 ` Ken Wakita
2000-11-13 7:45 ` STARYNKEVITCH Basile
2000-11-07 9:06 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-11-07 10:13 ` Chris Hecker
2000-11-09 10:56 ` Stephan Houben
2000-11-09 21:56 ` Chris Hecker
2000-11-07 18:05 ` Thorsten Ohl
2000-11-07 19:19 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2000-11-06 23:10 Hao-yang Wang
2000-11-06 23:24 Hao-yang Wang
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