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Picturing Hoopl transfer/rewrite functions

Hoopl is a “higher order optimization library.” Why is it called “higher order?” Because all a user of Hoopl needs to do is write the various bits and pieces of an optimization, and Hoopl will glue it all together, the same way someone using a fold only needs to write the action of the function […]

  • February 16, 2011