Carl Banks wrote:
On May 8, 7:19 pm, namekuseijin <namekusei...@gmail.com> wrote:
On May 8, 10:13 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote:
In Haskell, Lisp and other functional programming languages, any extra
syntax gets converted into the core lambda constructs.
So? The user still uses that syntax, so how can you claim it doesn't
matter?
In Lisp
languages, that syntax is merely user-defined macros, but in Haskell
it's builtin the compiler for convenience.
I don't even know what you're saying here
I'm saying syntax is nothing special. They are user-defined, as
functions. And it all gets converted into functions. Functions matter,
syntax is irrelevant because you can do away with it.
In Haskell, point free style of programming shows almost no signs of
predefined syntax at all. It's all function composition.
In functional programming languages, predefined syntax is mostly
irrelevant. In Python and other imperative languages, it's absolutely
necessary. That's my point.
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