Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] pros and cons of static typing andside effects ?

2005-08-17 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On 8/17/05, Ralf Lammel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't even want this feature. :-) > The point being that datatype declarations, *as such*, are explicit > anyhow. > Why bother about the explicit quantifiers then? > Of course, in a language with inferred datatypes I would mind. > That's an int

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] pros and cons of static typing andside effects ?

2005-08-17 Thread Ralf Lammel
rg; Benjamin Franksen > Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] pros and cons of static typing > andside effects ? > > Ralf, > > > Technically this is trivial it seems. I think that some people > > consider this proposal a problem because typos (misspelled type > >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] pros and cons of static typing andside effects ?

2005-08-16 Thread Stefan Holdermans
Ralf, Technically this is trivial it seems. I think that some people consider this proposal a problem because typos (misspelled type parameters) immediately lead to the accidental exploration of a more advanced type-system feature and correspondingly more involved error messages. Of course, t

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] pros and cons of static typing andside effects ?

2005-08-16 Thread Ralf Lammel
Technically this is trivial it seems. I think that some people consider this proposal a problem because typos (misspelled type parameters) immediately lead to the accidental exploration of a more advanced type-system feature and correspondingly more involved error messages. Of course, the type c