Summary: Acta Informatica manuscript No.
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Differentiating Data Structures
Michael Abbott 1 , Thorsten Altenkirch 2 ,
Neil Ghani 1 , Conor McBride 3
1 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Leicester.
e­mail: michael@araneidae.co.uk, e­mail: ng13@mcs.le.ac.uk
2 School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Nottingham University.
e­mail: txa@cs.nott.ac.uk
3 Department of Computer Science, University of Durham.
e­mail: c.t.mcbride@durham.ac.uk
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Abstract. This paper and our conference paper (Abbott, Altenkirch,
Ghani, and McBride, 2003b) explain and analyse the notion of the
derivative of a data structure as the type of its one­hole contexts based
on the central observation made in McBride (2001). To make the idea
precise we need a generic notion of a data type, which leads to the notion
of a container, introduced in Abbott, Altenkirch, and Ghani (2003a) and
investigated extensively in Abbott (2003). Using containers we can provide

Source: Abbott, Michael - Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester
Ghani, Neil - Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences