From cd66e89f6f563519c62c8e8b85be151588245ce9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bnewbold Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 00:38:36 -0400 Subject: notes and some apply-all work --- final_project/work/description | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) (limited to 'final_project/work/description') diff --git a/final_project/work/description b/final_project/work/description index 64b6574..8768e08 100644 --- a/final_project/work/description +++ b/final_project/work/description @@ -24,3 +24,40 @@ Related problems (which could be covered by this work?): chaining procedures (eg if f maps A->B and g maps B->C, then gof maps A->C which might be what we want some kind + + +---------------- + +To try and/or think about: + +* GUI +* image processing +* memoization +* graph-search predicate satisfaction (keep reiterating until predicate sat.) +* randomized testing +* introduction of constants as 0-arity generics? +* generic predicates +* find and play with other existing generic dispatch systems (SFRIs? xml?) + +----------------- +GUI Spec/vision + +A basic GUI would take a single object and display the named operators which +could act on it as a list with a button for each; clicking the button would +evaluate that operator and pop up a new window with the text/pp result. + +One generalization would be to have the popup result be a list of named +operators which could act on that object. + +Another generalization would be to allow multiple objects and show their +possible combinations for each operator (maybe with a pull down menu?) + +Another generalization would be to show higher-arity operators with a text box +that the user could enter in values for. This could be done even without any +initial object! Just show the possibilities. + +The search for operators could be filtered some how so only interesting +operators are displayed; it could also be done as a continuation so that the +first 10 would be displayed, then there would be a button to view the next 10 +operators (eg, turn the search problem into a stream). + -- cgit v1.2.3