From: oleg@okmij.org
To: krismicinski@gmail.com
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, habet_ms@yahoo.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] functional or imperative feature ?
Date: 23 Jul 2013 00:16:24 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130723001624.11626.qmail@www1.g3.pair.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF1Sy-FM8jgR3-oDvzcXG9ndQwSAedvFwdd7iq=BeW4o-s-8_w@mail.gmail.com>
> The purest way to view it is that after desugaring, sequenced
> statements turn into lambdas, which turn into (morally) binds from the
> IO monad. The observation is that when writing in ML, you are
> implicitly writing in the IO monad.
Peter Landin has described this process already in 1965. See the exact
quotation from his paper (the ()-passing trick) in
http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/IO-monad-history.html
(as well a few comments). That Peter Landin's paper also described
State and Writer monads, streams and delayed evaluation and even
stream fusion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-23 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-21 20:50 habet_ms
2013-07-21 20:57 ` [Caml-list] " Christopher Zimmermann
2013-07-22 11:42 ` oliver
2013-07-22 11:46 ` David Allsopp
2013-07-22 14:23 ` oliver
2013-07-22 11:51 ` Wojciech Meyer
2013-07-21 20:58 ` [Caml-list] " David Allsopp
2013-07-22 11:20 ` Jean-Marc Alliot
2013-07-22 12:05 ` r.3
2013-07-22 14:59 ` Kristopher Micinski
2013-07-23 0:16 ` oleg [this message]
2013-07-23 2:15 ` Kristopher Micinski
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