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Article #4895Re: Hope
From: Paul Sanders
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1987 10:02
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1987 10:02
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In article <1720@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, kdmoen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Doug Moen) writes: > I'm looking for references to papers describing the functional > programming language Hope. All I've come up with so far is: > "A Hope Tutorial", Aug 1985 Byte > which doesn't even have references. > > I'm particularly interested in papers that are easy to find in > North America (Hope comes from Great Britain). > A really good reference is: "An Introduction to Hope", by Roger Bailey at Imperial College, LONDON SW7 UK I don't know how similar this is to your reference and I'm sorry that it's British but it should be useful. > Also, I have a question: > In Hope, the expression (1,2,3) is a 'tuple' with type num#num#num. > Are , and # binary operators? In my opinion, and I'm fairly new to this so I'm no authority, the ',' and '#' are simply syntactic sugar and act as a notational device. This is certainly the case with '#' since this is used only in declarations. --- -- E-mail (UUCP) PSanders@axion.bt.co.uk (...!ukc!btnix!psanders) Organisation British Telecom Research Laboratories (RT3122) Snail Mail BTRL, Rm G44 SSTF, Martlesham Heath, IPSWICH IP5 7RE, UK Telephone +44 473 645716
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!btnix!psanders From: psanders@btnix.axion.bt.co.uk (Paul Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Hope Message-ID: <588@btnix.axion.bt.co.uk> Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 06:02:21 EDT Article-I.D.: btnix.588 Posted: Tue Oct 6 06:02:21 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 22:34:30 EDT References: <1720@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Organization: British Telecom Research Labs, Martlesham Heath, IPSWICH, UK Lines: 29 Summary: HOPE reference and my opinion of the query