Bartosz Milewski wrote:
I'm trying to understand Reactive Banana, but there isn't much
documentation to go about.
I haven't written any beginner documentation yet because the API is
still in flux. The homepage
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Reactive-banana
and Stackoverflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/frp
are great resources, though. Feel free to drop me a line if you have
questions as well.
How is RB positioned vis a vis Elliott (and then
there is the earlier Elliot and Hudak, and the later Elliot with the push
implementation and type classes).
The semantics from Elliott (double 't', by the way) and reactive-banana
are essentially the same, but I have taken the liberty to modernize many
function names. You can pretty much directly translate Conal's examples
to reactive-banana, except for those involving the switcher combinator.
The approaches to implementation are very different, though. Functional
reactive programming is one of the cases where you have to learn the API
without understanding its implementation. (But have a look at the
Reactive.Banana.Model module, which provides a simplified model
implementation.)
Do you have a toy applet that
demonstrates the use of Reactive Banana, something like Elliotts Bezier
editor, http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69665/deop-tr.pdf ?
Reactive-banana comes with a lot of examples, mentioned here:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Reactive-banana#documentation
By the way, Conal's Bezier editor doesn't make much use of the switcher
combinator, so you can directly translate it into reactive-banana.
Best regards,
Heinrich Apfelmus
--
http://apfelmus.nfshost.com
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