12 Mar
2008
12 Mar
'08
9:22 p.m.
Don Stewart:
I'd chime in here -- actually getting arrays and parallel arrays with list-like interfaces, and then onto matrices, will impact a lot of people's work, in a good way.
I am not quite sure what you mean with a list-like interface. NDP/DPH- style arrays are exactly like Haskell lists, but restricted to finite structures and with a more eager evaluation strategy. The syntactic sugar is like lists, just with colons thrown in (eg, [:1,2,3:] instead of [1,2,3]) and the Prelude functions have the same names as the list functions, just with a suffix P (eg, mapP instead of map). Manuel