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Tom Schrijvers
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Tom Schrijvers is a professor of computer science at KU Leuven in Belgium since 2014, and previously from 2011 until 2014 at Ghent University in Belgium. He has over 20 years of research experience in programming languages and has co-authored more than 100 scientific papers. Much of his research focuses on functional programming and on the Haskell programming language in particular: he has made many contributions to the language, its ecosystem and applications, and chaired academic events like the Haskell Symposium. At the same time, he has more than a decade of teaching experience (including functional programming with Haskell) and received several teaching awards.
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  1. Enumeration types are defined with the syntax data ET = K1 | … | Kn, where ET is the name of the type and K1Kn are the names of the data constructors. Each of the constructors is a value of the enumeration type. Values can be distinguished by means of pattern matching, writing one equation of a function per constructor:
    f K1 = ..
    
    f Kn = …
  2. Record types are defined with the syntax data RT = RK {f1 :: T1, …, fn :: Tn}, where RT is the name of the record type and RK is its constructor. The fields are named f1...fn and have the T1...Tn types, respectively. A value of RT is created with the syntax RT { f1 = e1, …, fn=en}, where e1...en are expressions of the T1...Tn types that yield the values for the fields. Given a value of the record type, a field can be extracted by using the field name as a function, fi :: RT -> Ti.
  3. An algebraic datatype is defined with the syntax data AT = K1 T11… | … | Kn Tn1 …...
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Tom Schrijvers

Tom Schrijvers is a professor of computer science at KU Leuven in Belgium since 2014, and previously from 2011 until 2014 at Ghent University in Belgium. He has over 20 years of research experience in programming languages and has co-authored more than 100 scientific papers. Much of his research focuses on functional programming and on the Haskell programming language in particular: he has made many contributions to the language, its ecosystem and applications, and chaired academic events like the Haskell Symposium. At the same time, he has more than a decade of teaching experience (including functional programming with Haskell) and received several teaching awards.
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