Functional compiler
A functional compiler is a compiler for a functional programming language. Functional compilers perform such transformation on source code which transform it to continuation-passing style or administrative normal form and need to handle tail calls correctly.
Further reading
- Simon Peyton Jones (1987). The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages
- R. Douence and P. Fradet. "A systematic study of functional language implementations". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 20(2):344–387, March 1998.
- Several proceedings on Implementation of functional languages in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/9/2011. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.