When is a Functional Program Not a Functional Program? Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:653744, abstract = {In an impure functional language, there are programs whose behaviour is completely functional (in that they behave extensionally on inputs), but the functions they compute cannot be written in the purely functional fragment of the language. That is, the class of programs with functional behaviour is more expressive than the usual class of pure functional programs. In this paper we introduce this extended class of \"functional\" programs by means of examples in Standard ML, and explore what they...}, author = {Longley, John}, booktitle = {International Conference on Functional Programming}, citeulike-article-id = {653744}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.39.2548}, keywords = {functional}, pages = {1--7}, posted-at = {2006-07-19 21:35:45}, priority = {4}, title = {When is a Functional Program Not a Functional Program?}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.39.2548}, year = {1999} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:653744 L3 - citeulike-article-id:653744 N2 - In an impure functional language, there are programs whose behaviour is completely functional (in that they behave extensionally on inputs), but the functions they compute cannot be written in the purely functional fragment of the language. That is, the class of programs with functional behaviour is more expressive than the usual class of pure functional programs. In this paper we introduce this extended class of "functional" programs by means of examples in Standard ML, and explore what they... EP - 7 TI - When is a Functional Program Not a Functional Program? T2 - International Conference on Functional Programming SP - 1 KW - functional AU - Longley, John PY - 1999/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.39.2548 ER -