From: Julien Signoles <julien.signoles@gmail.com>
To: rossberg@mpi-sws.org
Cc: Alain Frisch <alain.frisch@lexifi.com>,
Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>,
caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What is an applicative functor?
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 18:26:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinFJPBVZ6T8sgC4Jup3ZgcP0tqtpg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94bd910fac5bc093e62f73e0ba76d6a1.squirrel@mail.mpi-sws.org>
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2011/4/8 <rossberg@mpi-sws.org>
> > On 04/08/2011 10:20 AM, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> >> Applicative functors have other advantages, like the fact you can refer
> to
> >> a
> >> type produced by a functor without having really applied it.
>
> I agree with Jacques. My primary argument for applicative functors is
> diamond import in libraries. Assume you have a set functor in a library A
> (e.g. the stdlib). Then there are two seperate libraries B and C, perhaps
> from different sources. Both need to use sets. And you want to use B and C
> and pass sets from one to the other.
>
That is exactly the third issue that we have in Frama-C and that I
previously mentioned in my answer to Alain.
--
Julien
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-08 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-07 21:12 Dawid Toton
2011-04-07 21:49 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-04-08 0:44 ` [Caml-list] " Dawid Toton
2011-04-08 1:34 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-04-08 6:50 ` [Caml-list] " Andreas Rossberg
2011-04-08 8:04 ` Alain Frisch
2011-04-08 8:20 ` Jacques Garrigue
2011-04-08 8:38 ` Jacques Garrigue
2011-04-08 8:44 ` Alain Frisch
2011-04-08 10:09 ` Jacques Garrigue
2011-04-08 11:25 ` Julien Signoles
2011-04-08 11:58 ` Alain Frisch
2011-04-11 7:10 ` Julien Signoles
2011-04-11 7:21 ` Julien Signoles
2011-04-08 13:43 ` rossberg
2011-04-08 16:26 ` Julien Signoles [this message]
2011-04-13 2:36 ` Lucas Dixon
2011-04-13 7:23 ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-04-15 3:08 ` Lucas Dixon
2011-04-19 14:04 ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-04-08 16:43 ` Till Varoquaux
2011-04-08 17:35 ` Alain Frisch
2011-04-08 18:44 ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-04-08 21:23 ` Lauri Alanko
2011-04-08 21:34 ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-04-09 11:41 ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-04-08 5:35 ` Stefan Holdermans
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