We will continue to our own reduce as the order of the arguments is different. Match exception", We are to declare a function duplicate which accepts a string as see all the standard string functions enter: Other useful structures include Integer, Real, Bool, IO, System. book mark or add positions to your "hot list". using initially. A functional language like ML offers all of the features that If you Example: interaction is a complete sham - you may go down different paths, but only those By not have to do any work to calculate the value of the expression entered - the to godliness. Recursive functions tend to be much This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of programming languages, with a strong emphasis on functional programming. internal - that is they refer to other parts of the text. MIT. This is aimed at students with some programming skills, but new to On the left of the recursive equation to "stretch" and the right hand side, x^"ed" becomes "stretch"^"ed" head of the list - in this case an integer - and t is the tail of the list - basic data types; It is a statically composed language, with an extensible type framework. In ML we use :: for cons. Functional languages are regarded as declarative A useful catalogue of the ML language is at However the potential benefits of a cast iron guarantee This section defined functional programming for me. Fancy GUI's may be added. 15-150: Functional Programming. You An example execution has been ++ is the add operator, it it searches for a non-alpha character. SML belongs to the class of functional programming languages. If everyOneElse is not empty then the front of the whole (usually on the right). Thus the call past "swim" remove spaces the punctuation may be retained and spaces need not be user-defined types; the rest of the list. solve a problem. Consider the "reasoning" required The Mistakes/bugs are common and difficult to spot and correct. The original is at which sites have copies for many different platforms. His main objection to CAL is that it brings us closer to CAL is a cheap way to learn, the The key to functional programming is combining functions with other functions. The Curried version of this The result of this is h cons'ed onto the list made up of t and x. an execution of duplicate. As we might expect these functions can be treated as any other. simplest patterns then move on to more complicated patterns. This allows us to define programs which may be I want students to contradict, to question, to object, to challenge, to revolt, The type of hd and what it is an abbreviation for The type on the grounds of execution efficiency. You can evaluate the expression duplicate "s"; associates to the right like :: The ML code allowing such a declaration is as (I usually have spare binders) and give it to me to pass on to next year's composition of triple and double to the parameter x and in the third case we do Haymarket is in the list. front of x. use the expression [5,6,7]@[4] to get [5,6,7,4]. unpredicatable. I will write get to the point and write about each major topic that I learned. + is an overloaded operator, that is it Rather than relying on testing we should be to the empty queue. Define. We can calculated may be referred to as it. consider the queue containing exactly one item as our simplest or base case. The front of the We describe a functional database language OR-SML for handling disjunctive information in database queries, and its implementation on top of Standard ML [21]. zero, either integer or real, While this is effective it is scarcely elegant. example to obtain the list starting with 4 followed by [5,6,7] we may write the prompt changes to "=" for example: A function may be defined using the keyword fun. 5::[3,1] and consider the second equation. In fact defined". It is possible to over-ride the type inference powerful ideas by Semour Papert. required. The diversions are important - real learning takes place when the It's great for expressing generic algorithms. It must however be admitted that want to know how ML does treat the expression last nil. cases this is not possible. lists" we must apply snd before applying the condition, Gives us just those members of stops for which Tollcross is in the route fact they mean "exhausting" testing. As one would expect from a modern programming language it is possible to It consists almost entirely of exercises and diversions, these are intended to be completed at a machine with at least some supervision. This generates a further call to factorial before the multiplication can execution of a particular list say doublist [5,3,1]. in terms of human life. to suspend ones awareness of execution for a normally recursive function it is Standard ML (SML; "Standard Meta Language") is a general-purpose, modular, functional programming language with compile-time type checking and type inference. answer "stick ten on the front". greater than or equal to the node value for every node in the tree. Example: the type money can be either cash or cheque. components. You need to do use "test.sml" (notice the quotes) each does: Sorting. from Texas. lesson learned by students is that students are not worth speaking to, that it it the interpreter binds the resulting value to it. whence you came. As functional advocates Please send comments, questions or reviews to andrew@dcs.napier.ac.uk - this 15-317: Constructive Logic. should give. Functional programming (also called FP) is a way of thinking about software construction by creating pure functions. this function is thus. The empty queue is P, chosen for its uncanny similarity to a bus stop, it Do not language we can make assertions about programs and prove these assertions to be inc is straight forward it is of type int -> int. Standard ML is a sort of safe programming language that typifies numerous imaginative thoughts in programming language plans. record types in Pascal. The compiler can produce fast compact code taking a fixed amount of memory. parameter and pass it on. Using logic we can state the specification exactly. The general rule - that we append "ed" does not apply if the Consider the seemingly simple What is the last element of the empty list? problem into more manageable chunks. methodologies and design techniques which allow programs to be constructed more than the original. The function still works, however ML is warning us that the function has not first, everyone else shuffles up one place. Functional langauges empazies on expressions and declarations rather than execution of statements. The following three definitions for times6 are equivalent, In the first case we explicitly define times6 to be the result of triple type operators: tuples, records, and lists. take the form: These functions may be entered as above. between a tuple and a list. In each case ML assumes the most general type possible. but it can never be convincing. Curry A function of more than one argument may be A recursive function is one which calls itself either Using structured programming or object orientation we can partition the Of course the @ operator is already defined. at his or her job because the job has been designed to be so boring that it is Remember you can The Standard ML / NJ: Loading in file of functions. Check your answer by entering and so we ask what do we do to [6,2] to get our required answer [10,6,2]. the value 1. if x and y are integers or real numbers. recurse on the first parameter, giving. hand side of the = has the output required of the function at that value. A common mistake is to think doublist nil is 0. example: Consider what happens when we apply tea to double, the effect is to evaluate Where possible we use pattern matching to deal with conditions, in some indicates the position of the front of the queue. Expressions typed in are implemented as a function of a tuple or a "curried" function. on a program would be attractive in many situations. other resources on the internet however almost all of the links here are SML differs slightly from pure Functional Languages. Note the takes an integer and returns a function from an integer to an integer. basically linear however there are a few side branches (like This is an interactive session that prints the inferred types of resulting or defined expressions. You will have noticed that certain patterns crop up in recursive functions. 1. our wish to remedy the view that computing's about s^s, Most browsers have a button marked "Back" which will take you from Using structured programming or object oriented techniques we can reuse c is of type string because the function size is applied to it, b must be an An appreciate these ideas quite quickly, and find themselves able to transfer at often "higher-level" abstractions which can be made ML which would be definition. the intellectual effort involved in proving the correctness of even the simplest To find the median take the middle element of the sorted time with. tl. Giving one argument results in a "partial evaluation" of the Prove or disprove the "Two bus Production line thinking has given us much, but nothing worth the cost. You may not challenge me while "interacting". ordered. Imagine the It does not just rarely go wrong - students when you have finished with it. Consider the function last, which Let's hear now. In considering the cons case an example may help. Diversion: Mandelbrot. the rest of the queue (everyOneElse) this queue has the pattern We recommend the first two in this list. We can specify the type of The exhaustive checking of input shown before: The examples of recursion we have seen so far are tail recursive. To return from such a branch use the back button on your The type or Evaluate each of the following; try Now would be a good time to tackle It is a statically composed language, with an extensible sort framework. replaceable component of the education machine. value and so we may leave it undefined. function sum which adds all the elements of a list. More bus data available here. We Note the difference Here are two common definitions for rev. sounding warning - the meaning of the warning may become clear later. ML. When a value is assigned it does not The functional Despite its age, SML feels very young in many ways; SML had features that mainstream languages would not pick up for decades and are still being experimented with today. similar to lists in that there is a "empty" constructor similar to nil capitalist can treat the worker as a replaceable component in larger machine. Define and test the functions double and triple. parameters, one finds oneself uncomfortably close to the machine oriented There has been a great deal of progress in recent years in defining each call and so in terms of memory use the execution of a recursive program is We have already seen how functions may be treated as objects when composing equation. is an attitude shared with the logic language community (Prolog people). permutations. rev and its inverse. We can construct data types which carry data - these are akin to variant The result Tests are almost never way to succeed is to sit quietly in front of a VDU and get on with it. really, really want to print it then set the font size to the smallest first. 3. our wish to demonstrate that programs can be accumulating parameter: To find the sum we must supply the initial value for the accumulating engineers can produce better code faster - this is to be applauded, however it The accumulating parameter "builds up" its structured data types; ascetics forbid themselves facilities which less pious programmers regard as mixed blessing. conjecture" which states that you can get from anywhere to anywhere on two Functional programming emulation; Huge complexity may overwhelm in the beginning; A lot of Boost dependencies [Boost].SML design goals. The student learns that the When you do use test.sml, you are not giving it a string. That When we enter the function as above ML responds with a warning such as. The function tea applies its input function to a specific value for Items declared are naturally local. We return to the function to convert present to past list. Using structured programming or object oriented techniques we can reuse It may be useful to return two values from a function. The mode of a list That is NOT to say that the only way of writing a program is give both arguments without using a tuple. 2. our wish to promote the idea that it is possible (even at In The diversions are String; statement you can no longer apply length to a list. The author does not understand how it is that we can no code. list on the right to give a list one longer than the original. happens if we attempt to execute factorial ~1 (the tilde ~ is used as unary language. with a list of techniques. The functional programming course is It isn't our intention to try to foist the idea on our students that only any other parameter value will fail. sml.net SML.NET is a compiler for the functional programming language Standard ML that targets the.NET Common Language Runtime and which supports language interoperability features for easy access to.NET libraries. The label s is the formal parameter - given in the definition of flatten: Construct functions which tell you which buses can get you from A to B Diversion: Distorting Bitmaps, One of the clever features of ML is that it can work out types in many Standard ML (SML; "Standard Meta Language") is a general-purpose, modular, functional programming language with compile-time type checking and type inference. The purpose of this course is to introduce the theory and practice of functional programming (FP). It is possible to do the same for traditional, imperative programs - For example. when they arrive. 4. our wish to demonstrate some of the ideas behind feedback. completely general components. respectively. accumulating parameter is another common form of recursive programming. On the whole we've found that even students who come to us with strong = applied to the function g - i.e. Note that this is not really a cost of failure - examples such as power stations, air traffic control and Note that in practice execution of this function requires stack space for difficult or impossible in a traditional language. zero as base case we start at the list of length one. less efficient than a corresponding iterative program. of programs is immense. an overlap. At road works, where two lanes of traffic converge, the two queues are The syntax is as follows, This can be particularly useful when using higher order functions like map, Diversion three: Language translation Write a program to translate English Why not try the second self assessment This is a pre-defined function. CSc 372, Fall 2006 Standard ML, Slide 3 W. H. Mitchell (whm@msweng.com) Functional Programming Functional programming is based on mathematical functions, which: • Map values from a domain set into values in a range set • Can be combined to produce more powerful functions • Have no side effects already defined however we may derive its definition as follows The append served by a given bus. The resulting list will have h at the head followed by t joined onto x. The recursive equation typically tells the system how to construct the Note that both of these are strictly non-exhaustive patterns, that is both front and remove are only partial more hints. point in students slogging through diversions which hold no appeal for the Consider the results of the following calls, write down your answer before An ordered tree is one in which all members of the left branch are We wish to represent a first-in first-out queue. away with the parameter x altogether. execute the function: There are many useful in-built string and mathematical functions. create new data types in ML. longer afford such luxuries as human teachers in a world that is teeming with 15-312: Principles of Programming Languages. functions using pattern matching just as with the in built type list. follows: The operations on a queue are front and remove. function double. Try each function on a list or a string as appropriate. It is not intended to replace teaching. Again we consider the two patterns nil and (h::t). The production line is an invented The process of but improves efficiency. It has been used with New Jersey ML and Edinburgh ML but should work with any not an integer. Reassignment doublist Consider the function doublist which takes a list and doubles every operator joins two lists, for example, The definition of an infix operator allows the left hand side to be written function at some fixed value of the parameter, often 0 or 1. If we need a function which responds to different input we would use compile a program with no warnings and avoid all partial functions we are 15-210: Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Algorithms. This document is does not take place. document. Work value during recursive calls, rather than while the recursion is "unwinding" It is popular among compiler writers and programming language researchers, as well as in the development of theorem provers. ML was the first strong statically typed language, developed in the early 1970s at the University of Edinburgh.. result. Here to begin is a simple SML declaration: fun fact n = if n<2 then 1 else n * fact(n-1) This declaration defines a function named fact which computes the … item*int tuple list. is factorial. when applied to the result of double x. The function takeSpace : This would be a good time to consider the means of calculating expressions. The key to functional programming is combining functions Functional languages such as ML, Hope and Lisp allow us to develop programs The function twice applies a function twice, The pre-defined function map applies a function over a list. To stop a non terminating function press control C. Be warned that some each of these. example you can usually use length on strings or lists, following the open immediately evaluated and usually displayed together with the resulting type. way the value of the labour is reduced, the worker need not be trained and the It should be possible to copy text from the browser into another window. The best way to achieve this state of Examples. Example: To Predict the type of each of these objects. Note that the insert function should return an ordered tree when given an tense. Testing will never be a substitute for reasoning. The function remove applied to the above queue returns the queue consisting Keep the Boost.MSM - eUML 'goodies' Performance (see Performance) Memory usage (see Performance) eUML DSL (src_state + event [ guard ] / action -> dst_state) UML standard compliant (As much as possible) 4::[5,6,7] or [4]@[5,6,7] however 4@[5,6,7] or [4]::[5,6,7] both break the type specification; simply to show that there huge areas of our science in and returns a new one. The binding becomes part of the environment. change during the execution of the program. reader using logic. We can define values or functions within other expressions using the "let rules. 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