On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:56 +, Simon Marlow wrote:
I don't think a general things to avoid section should be advocating
not naming things... in fact I would advocate the reverse. Name as many
things as possible, at least until you have a good feel for how much
point-freeness is going to
[I drafted this response some time ago, but didn't send it, so apologies if
I am re-covering old ground...]
At 09:23 10/02/05 -0500, Jan-Willem Maessen wrote:
If you're trying to avoid obscurity, why advocate point-free style?
Some time ago, I asked an experienced Haskell programmer about the
On 10 February 2005 14:23, Jan-Willem Maessen wrote:
If you're trying to avoid obscurity, why advocate point-free style?
I ask this question to be deliberately provocative; I'm not trying to
single you out in particular. So, to everybody: What's so great about
point-free style?
I
On Feb 10, 2005, at 6:50 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Thomas Jäger wrote:
Altogether, the spirit of the page seems to be use as little
syntactic sugar as possible which maybe appropriate if it is aimed at
newbies, who often overuse syntactic sugar (do-notation).
I have to agree (although I suspect few others will :))
matt
On 11/02/2005, at 1:23 AM, Jan-Willem Maessen wrote:
On Feb 10, 2005, at 6:50 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Thomas Jäger wrote:
Altogether, the spirit of the page seems to be use as little
syntactic
