Re: [Haskell-cafe] The semantics of constructor patterns

2007-12-30 Thread Cristian Baboi
Thank you. The thing is that when talking about the semantic of Prolog, one can choose any set as the semantic domain to start, and then a reason is given for choosing the Herbrand universe. On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:23:00 +0200, Benja Fallenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Cristian, On

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The semantics of constructor patterns

2007-12-30 Thread Benja Fallenstein
Hi Cristian, On Dec 30, 2007 6:10 PM, Cristian Baboi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I don't get it : > > (s a1 a2 ... at) must be the value of A in the semantic domain. Let call > that value a. > Then how can one know if a was built with (s a1 a2 ... at) and not with > (egg b1 b2) ? Because th

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The semantics of constructor patterns

2007-12-30 Thread Cristian Baboi
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:13:47 +0200, Jonathan Cast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 30 Dec 2007, at 11:10 AM, Cristian Baboi wrote: In section 4.3.3., chapter 4: Structured types and the semantics of pattern-matching, by S.Peyton Jones and Philip Wadler, there is this equation: Eval[[\(s p

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The semantics of constructor patterns

2007-12-30 Thread Jonathan Cast
On 30 Dec 2007, at 11:10 AM, Cristian Baboi wrote: In section 4.3.3., chapter 4: Structured types and the semantics of pattern-matching, by S.Peyton Jones and Philip Wadler, there is this equation: Eval[[\(s p1 p2 ... pt).E]] (s a1 a2 ...at) = Eval[[\p1 ... \pt.E]] a1 ... at The text s

[Haskell-cafe] The semantics of constructor patterns

2007-12-30 Thread Cristian Baboi
In section 4.3.3., chapter 4: Structured types and the semantics of pattern-matching, by S.Peyton Jones and Philip Wadler, there is this equation: Eval[[\(s p1 p2 ... pt).E]] (s a1 a2 ...at) = Eval[[\p1 ... \pt.E]] a1 ... at The text say: "To apply \(s p1 ... pt).E to an argument A we fi