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THEORETICAL PEARLS

Flattening combinators: surviving without parentheses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2003

CHRIS OKASAKI
CHRIS OKASAKI
Affiliation:
United States Military Academy,
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West Point, New York, NY, USA (email: [email protected])
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Abstract

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A combinator expression is flat if it can be written without parentheses, that is, if all applications nest to the left, never to the right. This note explores a simple method for flattening combinator expressions involving arbitrary combinators.

Type
Theoretical Pearls
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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , July 2003 , pp. 815 - 822
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press
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