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  • noun Plural form of catamorphism.

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Examples

  • One of the central points of the talk is the call for more creative catamorphisms.

    Planet Haskell Edward Z. Yang 2010

  • The pattern I presented is a useful way to implement functions that can be expressed as catamorphisms such that the result is incrementally computed for each operation on a value of a datatype.

    Planet Haskell 2009

  • But, when you need it, real tail call optimization is pretty important particularly for things like writing catamorphisms in a natural way.

    ongoing 2009

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