Me neither; there were actually two points:
1) It's not bad; at least, it's not bad for reasons you provide.
2) It would be here whether we like it or not.
Lennart Augustsson wrote on 20.04.2009 15:31:
I don't think that other languages failing should be an excuse for
Haskell to be equally bad.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Miguel Mitrofanov
<miguelim...@yandex.ru> wrote:
Well, the problem is that every implementor does choose a subset of standart
to implement.
It's much worse in JavaScript - essential features working differently in
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari, and sometimes they even
differ between versions; Web programmers still manage. (n+k)-patterns are
nothing compared to that.
Lennart Augustsson wrote on 20.04.2009 15:17:
If every implementor got to choose what subset of the standard to
implement that all code would have have to written in the implemented
intersection. I think that's a terrible idea.
The Haskell98 standard was set so there would be a baseline that
people could rely on.
When I implemented Haskell (both times) there were odds and ends that
I really hated (some of those feelings have changed), but I did it
anyway.
-- Lennart
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Bulat Ziganshin
<bulat.zigans...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Jon,
Monday, April 20, 2009, 1:59:07 PM, you wrote:
It's not an implementor's place to make such decisions --
they can legitimately say "this feature sucks" and tell the
next Haskell committee so. If they care enough about it,
they can lobby or get on that next committee, but the
arguments for n+k patterns /in Haskell98/ were done long
ago.
if you really believe in that you said, you can spend your own time
adding its support :) i never seen n+k patterns in real code so i
understand developers that don't want to waste time just to compliant
standard even if their efforts will be never really used
--
Best regards,
Bulat mailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com
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