[Haskell] seeking papers with good examples of the use of GADTs

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Norman,

Saturday, April 11, 2009, 12:55:30 AM, you wrote:

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GADTs_for_dummies#Further_reading

> I have a class of beginning functional programmers; we're approaching
> end of term, and I'd like them to learn about GADTs.  One of my goals
> in the class is to give students practice learning by reading papers,
> so I am asking for recommendations of papers that have good examples
> of GADTs in action.   Papers I've used in the past have included

>   Pottier and Gauthier 2005: Polymorphic Typed Defunctionalization and
>   Concretization, in Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation

>   Pottier and Rйgis-Gianas 2006: Towards Efficient, Typed LR Parsers,
>   in Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci

> and

>   Peyton Jones et al. 2006: Simple unification-based type inference
>   for GADTs, in the 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on
>   Functional Programming.

> Unfortunately the first two rely on concepts in which my students have
> little background (LR parsing and defunctionalization respectively),
> and the the third, while it opens with a nice example, is primarily
> about the (now obsolete) type-inference algorithm, rather than about
> how to use GADTs.

> I am hoping some of you may have suggestions about other papers that
> would be good tutorials in the use of GADTs.


> Norman

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com