Sunday, September 29, 2002

Generator and Search Objects in Java. "Generator classes are defined in the object oriented programming language Java by using continuation-style programming. Generator objects are used to write Prolog-like programs in Java to solve combinatorial constraint satisfaction problems." Examples include the N-Queens problem and some useful web search functions: "GenURLsFromURL generates the URLs found in the page specified by a given URL, and GenURLcontainsString succeeds if a page contains a given string and fails otherwise." This paper adds Java to the several other LTU postings on generators: [1, 2, 3] (Generator and Search Objects in Java, Lloyd Allison, 2000) [Lambda the Ultimate] This is great stuff! I'm a big fan of constraint programming—my next major language to learn is Oz—but this looks nice for its immediate applicability, e.g. at work. 10:25:55 AM    comment []

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