Inspirations & experiments, mainly about denotative/functional programming in Haskell
In Functional reactive chatter-bots, I described a few arrow-friendly formulations of functional reactive programming (FRP). This post shows how to define accumulation combinators and gives a few simple examples of their use.
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In a few recent posts, I’ve been writing about a new basis for functional reactive programming (FRP), embodied in the Reactive library. In those posts, events and reactive values are (first class) values. A reactive system able to produce outputs from inputs might have type Event a -> Event b or perhaps Reactive a -> Reactive b.
Although I’m mostly happy with the simplicity and expressiveness of this new formulation, I’ve also been thinking about arrow-style formulations, as in Fruit and Yampa. Those systems expose signal functions in the programming interface, but relegate events and time-varying values (called “behaviors” in Fran and “signals” in Fruit and Yampa) to the semantics of signal functions.
If you’re not familiar with arrows in Haskell, you can find some getting-started information at the arrows page.
This post explores and presents a few arrow-friendly formulations of reactive systems.
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comps by the simpler concatMB for sequential chatter-bot composition.