On 19/01/2012 10:19 PM, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
In other words,
MonadZero has no place in dealing with pattern match failure!
I completely agree. See "Bimonadic semantics for basic pattern matching
calculi" [1] for an exploration of just that. In the language of that
paper, the issue is that there is a monad of effects for actions, and a
monad of effects for pattern matching, and while these are very lightly
related, they really are quite different. By varying both monads, one
can easily vary through a lot of different behaviour for
pattern-matching as found in the literature.
I should add that if we had known about some of the deeper structures of
pattern matching (as in Krishnaswami's Focusing on Pattern Matching [2],
published 3 years *later*), we could have simplified our work.
Jacques
[1]
http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~kahl/Publications/Conf/Kahl-Carette-Ji-2006a.html
[2] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~neelk/pattern-popl09.pdf
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