chapter 3Construction Techniques
When we build, let us think that webuild forever.
To construct an object, we need some kind of description. If we’re lucky, the description might include a construction technique. Otherwise, we may need to use our wits and our experience to construct the object. This chapter focuses on gaining some construction experience.
The only way to learn a technique is to use it on a wide variety of problems. The technique of inductive definition for describing a set will be applied to various sets of numbers, strings, lists, binary trees, and Cartesian products. The technique of recursive definition for describing a function or procedure will be applied to processing numbers, strings, lists, ...
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