On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM, wren ng thornton <w...@freegeek.org>wrote:
> David Leimbach wrote: > >> Note that foldl' has a ' to indicate that it's not the same as foldl >> exactly. I would propose that sum' exist as well as sum, and that sum be >> lazy. >> > > I wish Haskell allowed ! to occur (non-initially) in alphanum_' identifiers > as well as in symbolic ones. Then we could be more consistent about having ! > mean strictness like it does with ($!), bang patterns, strict fields,... > (too bad about (!) and (!!)). The prime has so many other uses, it's a shame > it gets used up for strict/lazy variants, as if there were no other > variations. > > Yes, a lot of conventions don't always make sense in certain contexts, but at least the convention is there to help keep things consistent (for better or worse) Dave > -- > Live well, > ~wren > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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