Datatype-Generic Programming : International Spring School, SSDGP 2006, Nottingham, UK, April 24-27, 2006, Revised Lectures

Roland Backhouse

ISBN 10: 3540767851 / ISBN 13: 9783540767855

Editore: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - A leitmotif in the evolution of programming paradigms has been the level and extent of parametrisation that is facilitated - the so-called genericity of the paradigm. The sorts of parameters that can be envisaged in a programming language range from simple values, like integers and oating-point numbers, through structured values, types and classes, to kinds (the type of types and/or classes).Datatype-generic programming is about parametrising programsby the structure of the data that they manipulate. Toappreciatethe importanceofdatatypegenericity,oneneedlooknofurther than the internet. The internet is a massive repository of structured data, but the structure is rarely exploited. For example, compression of data can be much more e ective if its structure is known, but most compression algorithms regard the input data as simply a string of bits, and take no account of its internal organisation. Datatype-genericprogrammingisaboutexploitingthestructureofdatawhen it is relevant and ignoring it when it is not. Programming languages most c- monly used at the present time do not provide e ective mechanisms for do- menting and implementing datatype genericity. This volume is a contribution towards improving the state of the art. The emergence of datatype genericity can be traced back to the late 1980s. Codice articolo 9783540767855

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Titolo: Datatype-Generic Programming : International...

Casa editrice: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Data di pubblicazione: 2007

Legatura: Taschenbuch

Condizione: Neu

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This tutorial book presents six carefully revised lectures given at the Spring School on Datatype-Generic Programming, SSDGP 2006. This was held in Nottingham, UK, in April 2006. It was colocated with the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2006), and the Conference of the Types Project (TYPES 2006). All the lectures have been subjected to thorough internal review by the editors and contributors, supported by independent external reviews.

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Datatype-Generic Programming.- Comparing Approaches to Generic Programming in Haskell.- Generic Programming, Now!.- Generic Programming with Dependent Types.- Generic Programming in ?mega.- Revealing the X/O Impedance Mismatch.