On 2006-07-13 at 09:35EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark T.B. Carroll) wrote: > Jon Fairbairn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > a:: > > b:: > > c:. > > > > but when I suggested this at a Haskell meeting, Simon PJ > > complained that it "looks like hopscotch". I've never quite > > understood that complaint! > > http://blogs.salon.com/0002296/myimages/hopscotch.jpg and > http://www.northshield.org/officers/seneschal/moy/games/hopscotch.gif > suggest to me that the pattern of : and . going up in a row is a bit > like the squares along the linear 'course' (or list (-:) where sometimes > you get one and sometimes two.
Well, perhaps (the pattern I associate with hopscotch is the first, ie ·:·:·:·, which could never happen since :. is the end of the list), but that still leaves open the question "What's bad about that?" :-) Jón -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
