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EPISODE · Feb 25, 2020 · 10 MIN

The Mendler encoding and the problem of explicit recursion

from Iowa Type Theory Commute · host Aaron Stump

The Church encoding allows definition of certain recursive functions, but all the recursive calls are implicit.  The encoding simply presents you with the results of recursion for all immediate subdata.  Using a technique due to Mendler, an encoding is possible where recursions are explicitly made by the combining functions given to the data.

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The Church encoding allows definition of certain recursive functions, but all the recursive calls are implicit. The encoding simply presents you with the results of recursion for all immediate subdata. Using a technique due to Mendler, an encoding is possible where recursions are explicitly made by the combining functions given to the data.

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