> Although, now I'm second guessing myself, because I can't figure out how we > could create some design pattern that simulates an applicative functor. I'm > pretty sure the Visitor pattern doesn't take you this far (but I am willing > to be corrected). So, is there a way to create applicative functors in > non-functional languages? What would that pattern look like?
Perhaps this paper can answer your question: Jeremy Gibbons, Bruno C.d.S. Oliveira The essence of the Iterator pattern http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jeremy.gibbons/publications/iterator.pdf HTH, Andres -- Andres Loeh, Universiteit Utrecht mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] http://www.andres-loeh.de _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
