[Haskell-cafe] Bathroom reading

[Dan Piponi]

On 8/14/07, Dougal Stanton <ithika at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for cool but mind-bending examples of functional brilliance.

One of my favourite examples is:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/hinze99functional.html
Anyone who studies binomial heaps is struck by the similarity to
binary arithmetic. What Hinze does is formalise that similarity so
that binomial heaps and binary numbers are instances of the same type
class. Very pretty.
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Dan