On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Iavor Diatchki wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:01:33 -0500, Jacques Carette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The previous post on record syntax reminded me of some 'problems' I had > > noticed where Haskell and mathematics have a > > (deep) usage mismatch. > It is interesting that my sentiment is exactly the opposite. > Mathematicians (the applied kind, not the pure) tend to be quite > sloppy about their notation relaying _a lot_ on the context and the > fact that people know what they are talking about. I find that this > makes their explanations harder to understand rather than easier.
This seems to be related to what I wrote yesterday http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2005-January/008893.html I've collected some examples of abuse and bad mathematical notation: http://www.math.uni-bremen.de/~thielema/Research/notation.pdf _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
