Re: [Haskell-cafe] Disjunctive Normal Form

Jim, Lukes suggestion is a good one, and should help focus you on the syntactic constraints of DNF. A property that your dnf function should have is that the right-hand side of each case should yield a DNF formula. Take, for example, dnf (And s1 s2) = And (dnf s1) (dnf s2) Does And'ing two DNF formulas together yield a DNF? Regards, Chris On 11/1/07, Luke Palmer wrote:

A good way to approach this is data-structure-driven programming. You want a data structure which represents, and can _only_ represent, propositions in DNF. So:

data Term = Pos Var | Neg Var type Conj = [Term] type DNF = [Conj]

Then write:

dnf :: LS -> DNF

The inductive definition of dnf is straightforward given this output type...

Luke

On 11/1/07, Jim Burton wrote:

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I am trying to rewrite sentences in a logical language into DNF, and wonder if someone would point out where I'm going wrong. My dim understanding of it is that I need to move And and Not inwards and Or out, but the function below fails, for example:

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dnf (Or (And A B) (Or (And C D) E)) And (Or A (And (Or C E) (Or D E))) (Or B (And (Or C E) (Or D E)))

data LS = Var | Not LS | And LS LS | Or LS LS --convert sentences to DNF dnf :: LS -> LS dnf (And (Or s1 s2) s3) = Or (And (dnf s1) (dnf s3)) (And (dnf s2) (dnf s3)) dnf (And s1 (Or s2 s3)) = Or (And (dnf s1) (dnf s2)) (And (dnf s1) (dnf s3)) dnf (And s1 s2) = And (dnf s1) (dnf s2) dnf (Or s1 s2) = Or (dnf s1) (dnf s2) dnf (Not (Not d)) = dnf d dnf (Not (And s1 s2)) = Or (Not (dnf s1)) (Not (dnf s2)) dnf (Not (Or s1 s2)) = And (Not (dnf s1)) (Not (dnf s2)) dnf s = s

Thanks,

Jim

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