[Haskell-cafe] Proof that Haskell is RT

Andrew Birkett andy at nobugs.org
Wed Nov 12 17:02:08 EST 2008


Edsko de Vries wrote:
> See "What is a purely functional language" by Sabry. Not quite a formal 
> proof about *Haskell*, but then we would first need a formal semantics 
> of Haskell to be able to do that proof ;-)

Thanks for the reference, and also to everyone who replied -  all very 
useful and interesting.  For what it's worth, the blog posts I was 
writing are here:

http://www.nobugs.org/blog/archives/2008/11/12/why-do-they-call-it-referentially-transparent/
http://www.nobugs.org/blog/archives/2008/11/12/why-do-they-call-it-referentially-transparent-ii/

Andrew


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