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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 |