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From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: pattern abstraction
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Date: 6 Sep 90 05:56:24 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article  <3685@ecs.soton.ac.uk> sra@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stephen Adams) writes:
]
]If you explicitly curry the first function you break it, but
]you can do this to the second version...
]
]This loss of equivalence under a simple transformation could
]be used as a reason to prohibit repeated identifiers in
]patterns...

Aternatively, you could say that the transformation was done
incorrectly.  If the correct rules were applied for currying, then the
transformation would lead to an equivalent program.
-- 
					David Gudeman
Department of Computer Science
The University of Arizona        gudeman@cs.arizona.edu
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