> >or breakin' out the point-free style, > > flist = flip (map . flip ($)) -- okay, so I wouldn't recommend this > > I keep on reading about this "point free style", but can't find any > discussion of it. Are there any pointers (sic) ?
Search for "Squiggol" or "Bird-Meertens Formalism". A group of functional programmers at Oxford. (Richard Bird and Lambert Meertens are the ones the formalism was named after). I see some citations of Backus, J. 1978. "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs," Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 21:613-641. which appears to be available (as a scan) at, amongst others, http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf Another source is http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jeremy.gibbons/publications/index.html#radix (Jeremy Gibbons introduced me to the concept when I was an undergraduate). This is an introduction to Squiggol: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jeremy.gibbons/publications/index.html#squiggolintro This style underlies a lot of expert Haskeller's intuitions. The mass of cute symbols can drive you crazy, though... see Erik Meijer et al.'s paper _Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, and Barbed Wire_: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~erik/Personal/classic.htm Hope this helps. (going on the Wiki as PointFreeStyle, linked from CommonHaskellIdioms). --KW 8-) _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
