@article {CunhaPinto:05a, title = {Point-free Program Transformation}, journal = {Fundamenta Informaticae}, volume = {66}, number = {4}, year = {2005}, pages = {315{\textendash}352}, publisher = {IOS Press}, abstract = {

The subject of this paper is functional program transformation in the so-called point-free style. By this we mean first translating programs to a form consisting only of categorically-inspired combinators, algebraic data types defined as fixed points of functors, and implicit recursion through the use of type-parameterized recursion patterns. This form is appropriate for reasoning about programs equationally, but difficult to actually use in practice for programming. In this paper we present a collection of libraries and tools developed at Minho with the aim of supporting the automatic conversion of programs to point-free (embedded in Haskell), their manipulation and rule-driven simplification, and the (limited) automatic application of fusion for program transformation.

}, attachments = {https://haslab.uminho.pt/sites/default/files/alcino/files/pfpt.pdf}, author = {Alcino Cunha and Jorge Sousa Pinto} }