[Haskell-cafe] Examples of Mutually Recursive Types

wren ng thornton wren at freegeek.org
Sun Oct 26 12:55:37 EDT 2008


Hugo Pacheco wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have been searching for examples of Haskell "real scenarios" that employ
> mutually recursive datatype definitions.
> Does anyone know some interesting libraries or structures that I could play
> with?

Tim Sheard presents a realistic use case in [1]. We're using it in a 
logic language compiler, though your definitions of realism may vary. 
There's an expanded version of the two-level types idea in [2].

[1] <http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~sheard/papers/generic.ps>
[2] <http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~sheard/papers/JfpPearl.ps>

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~wren


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