[mercury-users] There's nowt so boring as writing thesis

[David Glen JEFFERY]

On 11-Sep-1998, Ralph Becket <rwab1 at cam.sri.com> wrote:
> 
> It strikes me that the current Mercury libraries don't provide that
> great a range of higher order utilities.  For example, mapping and
> filtering binary trees would be a good one.  I volunteer to code
> something up after this month if there's any call for it.
> 
> Reading the FP literature, it's just amazing how beautiful and concise
> HO code can be.  I love it.

Indeed. I think we'd all appreciate anyone's input into the design (and
implementation :) ) of the standard library. You may also like to check out Lee
Naish's recent post to the mercury-developers mailing list (available from the
web page) titled "Automatic generation of map, foldr, foldl".


dgj
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