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This paper presents FunctionalForms, a combinator library for constructing fully functioning forms in a concise and flexible way. A form is a part of a graphical user interface (GUI) restricted to displaying a value and allowing the user to modify it. The library is built on top of the medium-level GUI library wxHaskell. To obtain complete separation between the structure of a form’s layout and that of the edited values, we introduce a novel use of compositional functional references.
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Evers, S., Achten, P., Kuper, J. (2005). A Functional Programming Technique for Forms in Graphical User Interfaces. In: Grelck, C., Huch, F., Michaelson, G.J., Trinder, P. (eds) Implementation and Application of Functional Languages. IFL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3474. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11431664_3
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