Generic downwards accumulations

A downwards accumulation is a higher-order operation that distributes information downwards through a data structure, from the root towards the leaves. The concept was originally introduced in an ad hoc way for just a couple of kinds of tree. We generalize the concept to an arbitrary regular datatyp...

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Prif Awdur: Gibbons, J
Fformat: Journal article
Iaith:English
Cyhoeddwyd: Elsevier 2000
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Crynodeb:A downwards accumulation is a higher-order operation that distributes information downwards through a data structure, from the root towards the leaves. The concept was originally introduced in an ad hoc way for just a couple of kinds of tree. We generalize the concept to an arbitrary regular datatype; the resulting definition is co-inductive.