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Finance Combinators[S. Peyton Jones and J.M. Eber, ``How to write a financial contract'', in The Fun of Programming, ed Gibbons and de Moor, Palgrave Macmillan 2003]

(zero) a contract that has no rights
and no obligations
(one k) one unit of currency k
c you immediately acquire contract c
(give c) to give a contract c to another party;
like negation
(at t c) if you acquire contract c before time t,
it becomes effective at time t
(truncate t c) contract c ceases to exist after time t
(and c1 c2) both contracts c1 and c2
(or c1 c2) your choice of contracts c1 and c2
(cond b c1 c2) you acquire contract c1
if the observable b is true,
else you acquire c2
(scale o c) multiply contract c by observable o
(when b c) you must acquire contract c
when b becomes true
(but worthless if b can never be true)
(anytime b c) you may acquire contract c
any time b becomes true
(until b c) is like contract c but must be abandoned
when b becomes true