On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:56:10PM -0400, David F. Place wrote: > > On Sep 16, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Glynn Clements wrote: > > >Haskell's safety and consistency can get in the way, while Lisp's > >freedom can be quite unsafe and inconsistent. > > and lazy evaluation eliminates 99% of the need for macros in lisp.
I wrote: > supposedly unavailable in other languages. Surprisingly, most of these > things were equally easy to do with higher-order functions and > closures in Haskell. ... and laziness of course, and some other features too. Did I say "equally easy"? It is often easier. Creating your own control structures in Haskell is a pure pleasure. Best regards Tomasz _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
