Dear all,
Wolfgang Lux writes:
>Hello,
>
>the semantics of purely functional programs in Curry is mostly similar
>to that of Haskell (except for the handling of overlapping rules).
>However, there is one major difference, which results in valid Haskell
>programs to fail under Curry: The lifting algorithm given in appendix
>D.8 of the report is too strict wrt local patterns. E.g. consider the
>definition
I agree with Wolgang that a less strict lifting algorithm would be better,
in order to achieve succesful computations in those cases where Haskell does
so. However, I have a comment about the alternative translation which
Wolgang proposes to eliminate local pattern declarations. It seems to me
that the translation does not work in the case of recursive local definitions.
Consider for example the definition
f x = let {xs = x:xs} in head (tail xs)
In Haskell, (f 0) evaluates to 0, while the translation proposed by Wolgang
cannot be applied because free (x:xs) is not a subset of free (f x).
Maybe the translation is not meant to be used for recursive local definitions.
If this is the case, just forget about the comment.
Best Wishes,
Mario.
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