Quoth Steve Schafer, nevermore, > Parentheses require you to maintain a mental general-purpose push-down > stack as you read the code. $, on the other hand, while it also requires > you to maintain a sort of stack, it's a "monotonic" stack: you may need > to push an arbitrary number of items, but you don't pop anything until > you reach the end of the code. So the mental model required to read code > containing $'s is simpler than that required for parentheses.
Which is the longer way of saying you don't need to count to make sure you closed all the brackets you opened! ;-) D. -- Dougal Stanton _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
