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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford / 2015 / Functional programming, design and analysis of algorithms / 2 / a / Solution by

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Use a sum type whose two constructors distinguish a number from an operator:

data Elem = Number Int | Operator Op

Then the supplied Polish and RPolish aliases can both be lists of Elem. Constructor tags distinguish tokens without attempting to encode operators as special numeric values. The numeric type Int agrees with the supplied abstract syntax tree.

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