Re: micro-rant

2001-08-09 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:27:40 +0200, Florian Hars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > Yes, getting a sytax error if I write (x-1)*(-x-1) is a real stumbling block. It's not a syntax error. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk * [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://qrczak.ids.net.pl/ \__/ ^^ SYGNATURA Z

Re: micro-rant

2001-08-09 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:20:49 -0700, Memovich, Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > As long as were trying to clean up a final version of the Haskell > 98 report, lets simplify it a little by getting rid of unary minus. I'm against removing it, even if compatibility was not an issue. Yes, it's an irreg

Re: micro-rant

2001-08-09 Thread Florian Hars
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:12:46AM +1000, Richard Watson wrote: > I'd like to add my vote for this. Its removal would result in a nicer language > specification, and would remove a obstacle that novice programmers sometimes > stumble over. Yes, getting a sytax error if I write (x-1)*(-x-1) is a r

Re: micro-rant

2001-08-08 Thread Richard Watson
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > I totally agree with Gary. In my opinion the unary minus is a anomaly in > Haskell which causes a lot of problems while beeing not that useful. For me > it is totally okay to use negate x instead of -x. > > Gary wrote: > > > > As long as were tryi

Re: micro-rant

2001-08-08 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Hello, I totally agree with Gary. In my opinion the unary minus is a anomaly in Haskell which causes a lot of problems while beeing not that useful. For me it is totally okay to use negate x instead of -x. Wolfgang Gary wrote: > Hello people, > I've been studying the Haskell 98 report as part