[Haskell-cafe] Is this functional reactive programming

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

For the record, 'self-adjusting computation' is also known as 'incremental
computation'. The latter term is overloaded, as you might imagine.

-- Kim-Ee

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Jake McArthur <jake.mcarthur at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This looks more like self-adjusting computation than functional reactive
> programming. There's a lot of good literature on this topic that's pretty
> easy to find on Google. Hope this helps!
>
> On 8:36PM, Sun, May 10, 2015 Clinton Mead <clintonmead at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What I want to be able to do is something like this:
>>
>> do
>> x <- newSTRef 2
>> y <- newSTRef 3
>> z <- letSTRef (x + y)
>> r1 <- readSTRef z
>> writeSTRef x 5
>> r2 <- readSTRef z
>> return (r1, r2)
>>
>> This should return (6,15)
>>
>> The "letSTRef" is what's new. The value it returns can change based on
>> the parts that make up it's function changing.
>>
>> I understand this syntax above isn't going to work (I'd have to use
>> applicative at least I'd imagine) but my main question is that does
>> something like this exist? Is it functional reactive programming or is it
>> something else?
>>
>> I don't want to be reinventing the wheel if this type of idea is already
>> implemented but I haven't recognised it.
>>
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