Hello Chris, Thursday, April 3, 2008, 6:07:53 PM, you wrote:
> On the other hand, I have enough time already trying to explain Num, > Fractional, Floating, RealFrac, ... to new haskell programmes. I'm not > sure it's an advantage if someone must learn the meaning of an additive > commutative semigroup in order to understand the type signatures inferred > from code that does basic math in Haskell. At least in the U.S., very > few computer science students take an algebra course before getting > undergraduate degrees. we already need to learn Category Theory to say "Hello, World" :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe