6 Oct
2011
6 Oct
'11
8:30 a.m.
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
Roman Leshchinskiy:
What data structures other than lists do we want to construct using list literals? I'm not really sure what the use cases are.
Parallel arrays! (I want to get rid of our custom syntax.)
Why? Don't you think it is useful to have a visual indication of which data structure you are using and what is going to be evaluated in parallel? In any case, if we want to get rid of the parallel array syntax, we have to overload list literals, enumerations and list comprehensions. We have the generic monadic desugaring for the latter but recovering an efficient DPH program from that sn't trivial. Roman