From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D753BBBB for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:43:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k2UEhIe1004754 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:43:18 +0200 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA05812 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:43:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ext.lri.fr (ext.lri.fr [129.175.15.4]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k2UEhHhp004750 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:43:17 +0200 Received: from smtp.lri.fr (serveur3-5 [129.175.3.5]) by ext.lri.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E962023DB; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:43:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pc9-152 (pc9-152 [129.175.9.152]) by smtp.lri.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C4BCEDAF; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:43:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from filliatr by pc9-152 with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FOyMI-00052S-00; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:42:46 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <17451.61025.385864.170590@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:42:41 +0200 To: jtbryant@valdosta.edu Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] FP & Software Engineering In-Reply-To: <1143673272.14880.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1143673272.14880.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 From: Jean-Christophe Filliatre X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at lri.fr X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 442BEE86.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 442BEE85.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; filliatre:01 filliatr:01 lri:01 hofs:01 functors:01 parametric:01 polymorphism:01 functors:01 pubs:01 ocaml:01 filliatre:01 lri:01 filliatr:01 mania:98 caml-list:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Jonathan Bryant writes: > Has anybody ever come up with a way of doing these things (HOFs, > functors, partial application, module types, parametric polymorphism) in > UML or any kind of modeling language? In Norman Ramsey's nice paper "ML Module Mania" you'll find such a diagram for a complex combination of signatures, modules and functors: see http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/nr/pubs/maniaws-abstract.html There are similar diagrams in Philippe Narbel's recent book about Ocaml, but unfortunately this book is only printed in French (if I'm right). Hope this helps, -- Jean-Christophe Filliātre (http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr)