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From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] really HO Functions
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:32:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oejo4pnq.fsf@qrnik.zagroda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409292331.05016.jon@jdh30.plus.com> (Jon Harrop's message of "Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:31:05 +0100")

Jon Harrop <jon@jdh30.plus.com> writes:

>> My question is: are there functions of level >= 2 used in practice
>> (e.g. (('a -> 'b -> 'a) -> 'a -> 'b list -> 'a) -> 'c)?
>
> I've just had a look through some real programs that I've written and the 
> answer is definitely yes. I use them quite a lot. For >2 they are mainly 3, 
> sometimes 4 and I haven't seen any >4.

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/okasaki99functional.html

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-29 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-29 18:48 Radu Grigore
2004-09-29 19:24 ` Jacques Carette
2004-09-29 22:31 ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-29 23:32   ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk [this message]
2004-09-30  6:27     ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-09-30 19:27 ` Michal Moskal
2004-09-29 20:48 Jean-Baptiste Rouquier
2004-10-02  5:02 ` Radu Grigore
2004-10-02  6:33   ` John Prevost
2004-10-02 16:44     ` Seth J. Fogarty
2004-09-30 17:30 Harrison, John R

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