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Re:Two Weeks of Rust by fanf2 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @11:40AM (#10902434)
And differentiation, which is useful for functional update of persistent data structures. https://chris-taylor.github.io/blog/2013/02/13/the-algebra-o...
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Re:Two Weeks of Rust by tel on Thursday January 14, 2016 @04:33PM (#10904669)
That's nice, but I wouldn't call it particularly core to ADT systems. It also requires quite a bit more machinery to embed directly since you need to be able to talk about functors/containers.
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