The Essence of the Iterator Pattern

The Iterator pattern gives a clean interface for element-by-element access to a collection. Imperative iterations using the pattern have two simultaneous aspects: mapping and accumulating. Various functional iterations model one or other of these, but not both simultaneously. We argue that McBride a...

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主要な著者: Gibbons, J, Oliveira, B
フォーマット: Conference item
出版事項: 2006
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要約:The Iterator pattern gives a clean interface for element-by-element access to a collection. Imperative iterations using the pattern have two simultaneous aspects: mapping and accumulating. Various functional iterations model one or other of these, but not both simultaneously. We argue that McBride and Paterson's idioms, and in particular the corresponding traverse operator, do exactly this, and therefore capture the essence of the Iterator pattern. We present some axioms for traversal, and illustrate with a simple example, the repmin problem.