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- From: un027705@wvnvms.wvnet.edu (Jon Beck)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory
- Subject: Building a Lattice
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.081445.4266@wvnvms.wvnet.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 18:09:34 GMT
- Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing
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- Can anyone point me to an algorithm for building a lattice? I
- happen to be specifically interested in a lattice whose meet is
- set intersection, whose join is set union, and whose partial
- ordering function is subset, but of course that shouldn't matter to
- the algorithm. It seems to me as though a compiler for a language
- which has multiple inheritance should have such an algorithm for
- building the inheritance hierarchy, which for multiple inheritance is
- a lattice, but I haven't been able to find anything in compiler
- literature.
-
- I have an algorithm which works, but it's hairy and smells bad; I
- was looking for something a bit prettier and which won't leave
- spots on the rug.
-
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- Jon Beck, Research Assistant
- Department of Statistics and Computer Science
- West Virginia University
- beck@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu
-