On Friday 18 November 2005 02:59, you wrote: > On Nov 17, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Benjamin Franksen wrote: > > ... > > Yes, yes, yes. I'd rather use a different operator for record > > selection. > > For instance the colon (:). Yes, I know it is the 'cons' operator > > for a > > certain concrete data type that implements stacks (so called > > 'lists'). However I am generally opposed to wasting good operator > > and function names as well as syntactic sugar of any kind on a > > /concrete/ data type, > > and especially not for stacks aka lists. > > Would you be happier if it were the "yield" operator for iterators? > > Yours lazily,
Ok, ok, I tend to forget that Haskell lists are lazy streams, not just simple stacks... which makes them indeed a /lot/ more useful than the corresponding data type in strict languages. I still think all those nice short and meaningful names in the Prelude (map, filter, ...) should be type class members in some suitable standard collection library. Ben _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
