[Haskell-cafe] 'Associative' order of calling
Kim-Ee Yeoh
ky3 at atamo.com
Sat Oct 24 17:55:50 UTC 2015
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Matteo Acerbi <matteo.acerbi at gmail.com>
wrote:
> For what concerns question 3, I didn't understand the idea of calling a
> function "associatively".
>
This. Associativity is a property of binary operators. It's not a property
of the catamorphism 'calling' on a given binary operator.
Also, when Charles writes: "Then it goes on to use f in "thisFold f
[0,1,2]" like "f (1 (f 0 2))""
commutativity appears to raise its head.
-- Kim-Ee
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