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authorGravatar Adam Chlipala <adam@chlipala.net>2011-07-15 18:55:58 -0400
committerGravatar Adam Chlipala <adam@chlipala.net>2011-07-15 18:55:58 -0400
commit4b54ea891652138a8d58399bbbfdbb852b70eabd (patch)
tree12f8f5eac9e735909223542818bb3f9fefc70ef0 /doc
parent4593948fd27e6cdc4c24a0b008ce1beac4df2560 (diff)
Make 'static' protocol handle unlimited retry
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diff --git a/doc/intro.ur b/doc/intro.ur
index d474a1e1..b9b15b72 100644
--- a/doc/intro.ur
+++ b/doc/intro.ur
@@ -73,3 +73,22 @@ fun compose [a] [b] [c] (f : b -> c) (g : a -> b) (x : a) : c = f (g x)
(* begin eval *)
compose inc inc 3
(* end *)
+
+(* The "option" type family is like ML's "option" or Haskell's "maybe." Note that, while Ur follows most syntactic conventions of ML, one key difference is that type families appear before their arguments, as in Haskell. *)
+
+fun predecessor (n : int) : option int = if n >= 1 then Some (n - 1) else None
+
+(* begin hide *)
+fun show_option [t] (_ : show t) : show (option t) =
+ mkShow (fn x => case x of
+ None => "None"
+ | Some x => "Some(" ^ show x ^ ")")
+(* end *)
+
+(* begin eval *)
+predecessor 6
+(* end *)
+
+(* begin eval *)
+predecessor 0
+(* end *)