[Haskell-cafe] CPS versus Pattern Matching performance

[Nicolas Frisby]

This might be a feasible appropriation of the term "destructor".

On 7/10/07, Bruno Oliveira <bruno.oliveira at comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:53:35 +0200 (MEST), Henning Thielemann wrote:
> >On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Tony Morris wrote:
> >A foldr without recursion. I use such functions frequently in order to
> >hide constructors of a data type. Does this kind of functions has a common
> >name?
>
> I think they just called "case analysis"; at least that's the terminology used here:
>
> http://www.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~james/RESEARCH/concon.pdf
>
> (See the "treeCase" example in Section 3).