||Miranda programming example - topological sort
topsort :: [(*,*)] -> [*]

||topsort takes a list of pairs representing a partial  order - where 
||the presence  of (u,v) in the list means that u precedes v in the
||ordering  -  and  returns  a  total  ordering  consistent   with   the
||information given - that is if (u,v) is in the input data, then u will
||come before v in the output list.

topsort rel = tsort (carrier rel) rel
||the carrier of a relation is the set of all the elements related by it

tsort c r = [], if c=[]
          = error "inconsistent data for tsort",       if m=[]
	  = a : tsort (c--[a]) [(u,v)|(u,v)<-r; u~=a], otherwise
            where
	    a = hd m
	    m = (c -- ran r)
||remarks on the above
|| - it is an invariant that c contains the carrier of relation r
|| - m is the set of elements of c with no predecessor in r

||the error case will arise if the input data contains a cycle - i.e.
||if there is an element that directly or indirectly precedes itself.

||a set is here represented as a list without duplicates
||the standard function mkset removes duplicates from a list

dom r = mkset [u|(u,v)<-r]  ||domain of a relation
ran r = mkset [v|(u,v)<-r]  ||range of a relation
carrier r = union (dom r) (ran r)
union x y = mkset (x++y)