[Haskell-cafe] Vague: Assembly line process

[Luke Palmer]

So hang on, what is the problem?  You have described something like a
vague model, but what information are you trying to get?  Say,
perhaps, a set of possible output lists from a given input list?

Luke

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Martin Drautzburg
<Martin.Drautzburg at web.de> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> this is a problem which has haunted me for some time. If this is simply
> hillarious, please tell me so. Or it may be some well known unsolvable
> problem...
>
> An assembly process takes inputs and produces outputs. I could say a Process
> is a function
>
> canProduce :: [Input]->[Output]->Bool
>
> which tells me if the outputs can be produced from the inputs
>
> There may be a similar function which tells me if the inputs are completely
> consumed to procude the output.
>
> The inputs do not determine the exact outputs. Think of a Process which
> combines a List of Ints into pairs, such that the input ints are consumed and
> each input Int occurs in only one position in the output. There are many ways
> to do this. Still for any set of input Ints and output pairs I could decide
> if the output can be produced from the input.
>
> Likewise the Input is not determined by the output. There may be lots of
> choices from what I could build my output (buy from different vendors).
>
> When I know more about the inputs and outputs my choices get more and more
> limited. I would like to to pass inputs and/or outputs to "something" and I
> would like to get a "something" which is more restricted, but still
> essentially a thing which tells me if the outputs can be produced from the
> inputs.
>
> I just cannot find a way to even THINK about this problem in a reasonable
> general way.
>
> --
> Martin
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