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| author | bringert <bringert@cs.chalmers.se> | 2005-12-01 15:37:47 +0000 |
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| committer | bringert <bringert@cs.chalmers.se> | 2005-12-01 15:37:47 +0000 |
| commit | 635845eed8acf476621bd0d01a85146fb19693a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 2c40fe3e2b32ec0fdc07b445a3c184f03d5ecc77 /transfer/README | |
| parent | 30bb51372fa8fdb6d68d1fd1b15793940c8d4e3b (diff) | |
Transfer: added support for disjunctive patterns.
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diff --git a/transfer/README b/transfer/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ed31ae3f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/transfer/README @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Some features of the Transfer language: + +* Purely functional +* Dependent types +* Eager evaluation +* Generalized algebraic datatypes +* Metavariables +* Records with subtyping +* Overloading by explicit dictionary passing +* Pattern matching by case expressions + +Additional features in the front-end language: + +* Disjunctive patterns +* do-notation +* Hidden arguments (not implemented yet) +* Automatic derivation of some operations on user-defined GADTs: + - Compositional maps and folds + - Equality + - Ordering + - Showing +* Pattern equations +* Operator syntax for common functions, most are overloaded |