[Haskell-cafe] Re: Collections

apfelmus apfelmus at quantentunnel.de
Tue Jun 26 05:17:10 EDT 2007


Andrew Coppin wrote:
> apfelmus wrote:
>> Andrew Coppin wrote:
>>  
>>> I see lots of *trees*, but no general graphs. (As in, *data* structures
>>> having cycles in them. My *code* is often cyclic...)
>>>     
>>
>> So what does a compiler do to typecheck it? It represents your code as a
>> graph and calculates strongly connected components.
>>   
> 
> That's quite true - but *I* am not writing a compiler, am I? ;-)

Oh well. You may insist that you won't encounter graphs in your problems
and I recommend to delete all symbolic links (aka "aliases") from your
file system to that end.

Regards,
apfelmus



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