From 157b0b898f07c15b13e42718fab380c4ee69d7ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Pryor Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:48:45 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] assignment7 tweaks Signed-off-by: Jim Pryor --- hints/assignment_7_hint_3.mdwn | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/hints/assignment_7_hint_3.mdwn b/hints/assignment_7_hint_3.mdwn index 3fec7e2d..4a159e9e 100644 --- a/hints/assignment_7_hint_3.mdwn +++ b/hints/assignment_7_hint_3.mdwn @@ -29,4 +29,28 @@ More specifically, \[[expression]] will be a set of `'a discourse_possibility` m * 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. + They say that the effect of updating an information state `s` with the formula `Qx` should be to eliminate possibilities in which the object associated with the peg associated with the variable `x` does not have the property Q. In other words, if we let `Q` be a function from objects to `bool`s, `s` updated with \[[Qx]] should be `s` filtered by the function `fun (r, g) -> let obj = List.nth g (r 'x') in Q obj`. + + Recall that [we said before](/hints/assignment_7_hint_2) that `List.filter (test : 'a -> bool) (u : 'a set) : 'a set` is the same as: + + bind_set u (fun a -> if test a then unit_set a else empty_set) + + Hence, updating `s` with \[[Qx]] should be: + + bind_set s (fun (r, g) -> if (let obj = List.nth g (r 'x') in Q obj) then unit_set (r, g) else empty_set) + + We can call the `(fun (r, g) -> ...)` part \[[Qx]] and then updating `s` with \[[Qx]] will be: + + bind_set s [[Qx]] + + or as it's written using Haskell's infix notation for bind: + + s >>= [[Qx]] + +* Now how shall we handle \[[∃x]]. As we said, GS&V really tell us how to interpret \[[∃xPx]], but what they say about this breaks naturally into two pieces, such that we can represent the update of `s` with \[[∃xPx]] as: + + s >>= [[∃x]] >>= [[Px]] + + + -- 2.11.0