[Haskell-cafe] Re: Collections

[Lennart Augustsson]

If you are going to ban graphs you also need to ban web pages (the links for
a graph, both between pages and interanlly), computer networks, maps,
dictionaries, you name it, it has a graph structure.

On 6/26/07, apfelmus <apfelmus at quantentunnel.de> wrote:
>
> Andrew Coppin wrote:
> > apfelmus wrote:
> >> Andrew Coppin wrote:
> >>
> >>> I see lots of *trees*, but no general graphs. (As in, *data*
> structures
> >>> having cycles in them. My *code* is often cyclic...)
> >>>
> >>
> >> So what does a compiler do to typecheck it? It represents your code as
> a
> >> graph and calculates strongly connected components.
> >>
> >
> > That's quite true - but *I* am not writing a compiler, am I? ;-)
>
> Oh well. You may insist that you won't encounter graphs in your problems
> and I recommend to delete all symbolic links (aka "aliases") from your
> file system to that end.
>
> Regards,
> apfelmus
>
> _______________________________________________
> Haskell-Cafe mailing list
> Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org
> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20070626/01081e35/attachment.htm