I broke out the dot operator section of the proposal to its own page since it is actually fairly independent of the different proposals.
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Records/DotOperator On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 7:26 PM, wren ng thornton <w...@freegeek.org> wrote: > On 1/13/12 11:31 PM, Chris Smith wrote: > >> Anyone want to hazard a guess what percentage of >> Haskell programmers can even name every letter of the Greek alphabet? I'm >> betting less than 10%. >> > > That's easy for anyone with a classical education (or far too much > mathematics education). There may well be less than 10% of Haskellers who > have such, but Greek letters are rather trivial to learn. > > The problems arise when suddenly everyone needs to know the names of all > the graphemes of Cyrillic, Amharic, Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew,... > (because there are a great number of writing systems, and because they are > relatively unknown having not been coopted by the mathematical tradition) > or when everyone needs to know the names of all the obscure symbols > mathematicians have come up with over the years (because generally they've > never been named in the first place). > > -- > Live well, > ~wren > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.**org <Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org> > http://www.haskell.org/**mailman/listinfo/glasgow-**haskell-users<http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users> >
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