Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Data.ByteString is full of mutation-heavy inner loops.
I suspect you are missing Kyle's point, which I interpret to be more
like what Paul Graham talks about in "ANSI Common Lisp":
[OO] provides a structured way to write spaghetti code. [...] For
programs that would have ended up as spaghetti anyway, the object
oriented model is good: they will at least be structured
spaghetti.
In my opinion, Haskell is pretty bad at spaghetti. And although it is
possible that some programs simply need to be spaghetti-structured, I
still think not supporting it is a good thing - Haskell should instead
provide the tools for writing an equivalent non-spaghettized program.
Bytestrings have mutation-heavy inner loops, but localized,
well-structured, and exporting a neat, pure interface, so they don't
count here.
> There's nothing magic about it.
Now you're just being modest.
-k
--
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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