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| author |  Adam Chlipala <adamc@hcoop.net> | 2010-02-07 16:13:09 -0500 |
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| committer | Adam Chlipala <adamc@hcoop.net> | 2010-02-07 16:13:09 -0500 |
| commit | a69cb36fba2842a0d1bc3eb5de844c77c3cbdfc6 (patch) | |
| tree | b62687a4578c93213eb7ffc4fea26087ad284565 | |
| parent | 10fb0bc3d86fb48f7bf7b608f208cd3f6e4ca3a8 (diff) | |
Expand 'row types' in first paragraph of manual
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diff --git a/doc/manual.tex b/doc/manual.tex index c5cfc52f..34995e62 100644 --- a/doc/manual.tex +++ b/doc/manual.tex @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ \section{Introduction} -\emph{Ur} is a programming language designed to introduce richer type system features into functional programming in the tradition of ML and Haskell. Ur is functional, pure, statically-typed, and strict. Ur supports a powerful kind of \emph{metaprogramming} based on \emph{row types}. +\emph{Ur} is a programming language designed to introduce richer type system features into functional programming in the tradition of ML and Haskell. Ur is functional, pure, statically-typed, and strict. Ur supports a powerful kind of \emph{metaprogramming} based on \emph{type-level computation with type-level records}. \emph{Ur/Web} is Ur plus a special standard library and associated rules for parsing and optimization. Ur/Web supports construction of dynamic web applications backed by SQL databases. The signature of the standard library is such that well-typed Ur/Web programs ``don't go wrong'' in a very broad sense. Not only do they not crash during particular page generations, but they also may not: |