From: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:15:56 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Update outline.
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Update outline.
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diff --git a/Chapters/HardwareDescription.tex b/Chapters/HardwareDescription.tex
index ddce85d..9e4061c 100644
--- a/Chapters/HardwareDescription.tex
+++ b/Chapters/HardwareDescription.tex
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ and3 a b c = and (and a b) c
         the prototype, which uses \emph{type families}.
       \stopdesc
 
-      TODO: Reference Christiaan
+      TODO: Reference Christiaan / describe dependent typing
     \subsection{User-defined types}
       There are three ways to define new types in Haskell: Algebraic
       datatypes with the \hs{data} keyword, type synonyms with the \hs{type}
diff --git a/Outline b/Outline
index 074f6a6..88cc626 100644
--- a/Outline
+++ b/Outline
@@ -8,32 +8,26 @@ Introduction
 
 Haskell as hardware
 *       Simple function -> component interpretation (Model: Structure)
+*       Choice / Case
+*       Types
 *       Partial application
 *       Model: State
 *         Explicit vs implicit passing of state (e.g, delay)
 *         Explicit vs implicit marking
 *       Interpret: Polymorphism
 *       Interpret: Higher order
-	Need: Dependent types
 *       Recursion
-	Impossible things: Infinite recursion, higher order expressions,
-                           recursive types, ...
 
 Prototype
 *       Choice of Haskell
-        VHDL / Verilog / EDIF etc. Why VHDL?
+*       VHDL / Verilog / EDIF etc. Why VHDL?
 *	Stages (-> Core, Normalization, -> VHDL)
-.       Core - description of the language (appendix?)
+.       Core - description of the language
+*         Expressions
+          Typing
         Implementation issues -- Which?
         State annotations
 
-        Haskell language coverage / constraints
-                Recursion
-                Builtin types
-                Custom types (Sum types, product types)
-                Function types / higher order expressions
-                State type -> Anything representable
-
 Normalization
 *	Normal form
 *	Rules used
@@ -48,5 +42,9 @@ Future work
 *	Multiple cycle descriptions
 *       Higher order state
 *       New language
+        Don't care
 
 TODO: Define user / developer
+TODO: Comiler vs translator
+TODO: Hardware description / model vs program
+TODO: State & pattern matches