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Data types in distributive categories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

R.F.C. Walters
Affiliation:
Pure Mathematics DepartmentUniversity of Sydney NSW 2006Australia
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Abstract

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The purpose of this note is to describe some of the standard data types of computer science in the language of distributive categories. We believe that in this way we have achieved a simplification and a formal clarification of the specification of these data types.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1989

References

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