[Pl-seminar] FW: Church Seminar on Monday, May 13 Chris Okasaki

[Paul Steckler]

FYI -- Paul

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[mailto:owner-church-announce@types.bu.edu] On Behalf Of Gang Chen
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 4:14 PM
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Subject: Church Seminar on Monday, May 13 Chris Okasaki

I'm pleased to announce

Speaker: Chris Okasaki

Title:  Flattening Combinators: Surviving Without Parentheses

Time: Monday, May 13, 2002, 11am

Place: BU,MCS135
      (for directions, see http://www.cs.bu.edu/colloquium/)

Abstract

I recently received the following email:

  Sir,

  I just spilled soda on my keyboard and now the 9 and 0 keys don't
  work.  I can still use the 9 and 0 on the numeric keypad, but what
  should I do about the parentheses?  I can pick up a new keyboard
  over the weekend, but the combinator homework is due tomorrow, and
  it uses parentheses all over the place!

  Respectfully,
  Cadet K

In this talk, we will help Cadet K complete his homework, showing how
to efficiently convert arbitrary combinator expressions into equivalent
combinator expressions without parentheses.