DPH Questions

[Roman Cheplyaka]

* Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak at cse.unsw.edu.au> [2009-02-12 12:16:26+1100]
>> Also - there are several papers which mention foldP as being part of  
>> the (prospective) implementation, but I couldn't find this in any of  
>> the modules.  Has this one not been implemented yet?
>
> Up to now, the implementation of operations in the special-purpose  
> Prelude and the array library was essentially driven by the examples we 
> coded so far:
>
>   http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/dph/examples/
>
> So if we didn't actually use a function somewhere, we probably didn't  
> implement it.  Again, the motivation was to get simple examples working 
> before making any attempt at completing the set of supported language 
> features or library functions.

It is present here [1] -- so at least it has been implemented.

  1. http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/GHC-PArr.html#v%3AfoldlP
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