X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=hints%2Fassignment_7_hint_3.mdwn;h=3fec7e2d3289ad3f8b285f72ba350d30b02cd388;hp=c678e80b6fa036ae45dfa03913c1c6df2d5a5e3b;hb=0548ea20113afa9723949ce0802aea8a874b2cd4;hpb=00fb05d9ee37681282813893ee69ed7441fe1273 diff --git a/hints/assignment_7_hint_3.mdwn b/hints/assignment_7_hint_3.mdwn index c678e80b..3fec7e2d 100644 --- a/hints/assignment_7_hint_3.mdwn +++ b/hints/assignment_7_hint_3.mdwn @@ -5,22 +5,28 @@ * They say the denotation of a variable is the object which the store `g` assigns to the index that the assignment function `r` assigns to the variable. In other words, if the variable is `'x'`, its denotation wrt `(r, g, w)` is `g[r['x']]`. -We're going to keep all of that, except dropping the worlds. And instead of talking about "\[[expression]] in discourse possibility `(r, g, w)`," we'll just talk about "\[[expression]]" and let that be a monadic object, implemented in part by a function that takes `(r, g)` as an argument. +We're going to keep all of that, except dropping the worlds. And instead of talking about -More specifically, "\[[expression]]" will be a set of 'a discourse possibility monads, where 'a is the appropriate type for "expression," and the discourse possibility monads are themselves state monads where `(r, g)` is the state that gets updated. Those are implemented as functions from `(r, g)` to `(a, r', g')`, where `a` is a value of type `'a`, and `r', g'` are possibly altered assignment functions and stores. +> \[[expression]] in possibility `(r, g, w)` + +we'll just talk about \[[expression]] and let that be a monadic object, implemented in part by a function that takes `(r, g)` as an argument. + +More specifically, \[[expression]] will be a set of `'a discourse_possibility` monads, where `'a` is the appropriate type for *expression*, and the discourse possibility monads are themselves state monads where `(r, g)` is the state that gets updated. Those are implemented as functions from `(r, g)` to `(a, r', g')`, where `a` is a value of type `'a`, and `r', g'` are possibly altered assignment functions and stores. * In def 2.7, GS&V talk about an operation that takes an existing set of discourse possibilities, and extends each member in the set by allocating a new location in the store, and assigning a variable `'x'` to that location, which holds some object `d` from the domain. It will be useful to have a shorthand way of referring to this operation: - let newpeg_and_bind (variable : char) (d : entity) = + let newpeg_and_bind (bound_variable : char) (d : entity) = fun ((r, g) : assignment * store) -> let newindex = List.length g (* first we store d at index newindex in g, which is at the very end *) (* the following line achieves that in a simple but very inefficient way *) in let g' = List.append g [d] (* next we assign 'x' to location newindex *) - in let r' = fun variable' -> - if variable' = variable then newindex else r variable' + in let r' = fun v -> + if v = bound_variable then newindex else r v (* the reason for returning a triple with () in first position will emerge *) in ((), r',g') +* At the top of p. 13 (this is in between defs 2.8 and 2.9), GS&V give two examples, one for \[[∃xPx]] and the other for \[[Qx]]. In fact it will be easiest for us to break \[[∃xPx]] into two pieces, \[[∃x]] and \[[Px]]. Let's consider expressions like \[[Px]] (or \[[Qx]]) first. +