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From: psanders@btnix.axion.bt.co.uk (Paul Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Hope
Message-ID: <588@btnix.axion.bt.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 06:02:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: btnix.588
Posted: Tue Oct  6 06:02:21 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 22:34:30 EDT
References: <1720@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
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Summary: HOPE reference and my opinion of the query

In article <1720@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, kdmoen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Doug Moen) writes:
> I'm looking for references to papers describing the functional
> programming language Hope.  All I've come up with so far is:
> 	"A Hope Tutorial", Aug 1985 Byte
> which doesn't even have references.
> 
> I'm particularly interested in papers that are easy to find in
> North America (Hope comes from Great Britain).
> 
A really good reference is:
	"An Introduction to Hope", by Roger Bailey at Imperial College,
					LONDON SW7
					UK
I don't know how similar this is to your reference and I'm sorry that it's
British but it should be useful.
> Also, I have a question:
> In Hope, the expression (1,2,3) is a 'tuple' with type num#num#num.
> Are , and # binary operators?


In my opinion, and I'm fairly new to this so I'm no authority, the ',' and '#'
are simply syntactic sugar and act as a notational device. This is certainly
the case with '#' since this is used only in declarations.
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