From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>,
caml-list@inria.fr, Chung-chieh Shan <ccshan@post.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Which syntax to teach ?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:56:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193766983.7594.15.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47276500.3050501@gmail.com>
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 12:08 -0500, Edgar Friendly wrote:
> Brian Hurt wrote:
> > Chung-chieh Shan wrote:
> >
> >> Any tips on how (and perhaps how not) to teach functors?
The problem teaching functors is that the essential feature
of functors is missing -- a functor is a structure preserving
map but there's no way to specify any structure other than
in comments.
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 11:36 David Teller
2007-10-24 13:18 ` [Caml-list] " Loup Vaillant
2007-10-24 13:24 ` Peng Zang
2007-10-24 13:54 ` Julien Moutinho
2007-10-24 17:23 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-10-24 19:05 ` Adrien
2007-10-25 5:14 ` Aleks Bromfield
2007-10-30 16:26 ` Chung-chieh Shan
2007-10-30 16:38 ` [Caml-list] " Brian Hurt
2007-10-30 16:59 ` Chung-chieh Shan
2007-10-30 17:08 ` [Caml-list] " Edgar Friendly
2007-10-30 17:56 ` skaller [this message]
2007-10-30 19:02 ` Vincent Aravantinos
2007-10-30 18:50 ` William D. Neumann
2007-10-30 21:45 ` Eliot Handelman
2007-10-30 18:56 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-10-25 9:43 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2007-10-24 22:52 ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-10-24 23:10 ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-25 1:48 ` skaller
2007-10-25 2:02 ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-25 9:49 ` Richard Jones
2007-10-25 11:32 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2007-10-25 11:52 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-10-25 12:39 ` Richard Jones
2007-10-25 12:59 ` Michael Ekstrand
2007-10-25 13:39 ` Loup Vaillant
2007-10-25 20:32 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-10-25 22:11 ` Loup Vaillant
2007-10-25 15:14 ` Richard Jones
2007-10-25 18:47 ` Re : " Adrien
2007-11-02 16:08 ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-10-26 11:11 ` David Teller
2007-10-24 23:02 ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-26 11:09 ` David Teller
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