hope

n 1: a specific instance of feeling hopeful; "it revived their

hope of winning the pennant"

2: the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; "in

spite of his troubles he never gave up hope" [ant: {despair}]

3: grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is

little or no promise that he will recover" [syn: {promise}]

4: someone (or something) on which expectations are centered;

"he was their best hope for a victory"

v 1: expect with desire; "I trust you will behave better from now

on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot exepct a

raise" [syn: {trust}, {desire}]

2: be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes; "I am still

hoping that all will turn out well" [ant: {despair}]

3: intend with some possibility of fulfilment; "I hope to have

finished this work by tomorrow evening" [syn: {go for}]

Hope

A {functional programming} language designed by

R.M. Burstall, D.B. MacQueen and D.T. Sanella at {University

of Edinburgh} in 1978. It is a large language supporting

user-defined {prefix}, {infix} or {distfix} operators. Hope

has {polymorphic} typing and allows {overloading} of operators

which requires explicit type declarations. Hope has {lazy

lists} and was the first language to use {call-by-pattern}.

It has been ported to {Unix}, {Macintosh}, and {IBM PC}.

See also {Hope:}, {Hope:C}, {Massey Hope}, {Concurrent Massey

Hope}.

{(ftp://brolga.cc.uq.oz.au/pub/hope)}.

[R.M.Burstall, D.B.MacQueen, D.T.Sanella, "HOPE: An

experimental applicative language", Proc. 1980 Lisp conf.,

Stanford, CA, p.136-143, Aug 1980].

["A HOPE Tutorial", R. Bailey, BYTE Aug 1985, pp.235-258].

["Functional Programming with Hope", R. Bailey, Ellis Horwood

1990].

(1992-11-27)