On Jan 26, 2007, at 6:22 PM, Claus Reinke wrote:
2) There are other reasons why I want to use Haskell-98 and
would like to be able to use other compilers. Thus, I'd want a
pattern-binder preprocessor (extending GHC is not as important to
me).
I see. though I'd hope that as long as we
On Jan 25, 2007, at 3:49 AM, Claus Reinke wrote:
but as far as Haskell is concerned, I am perhaps less radical in my
approach than Mark is: Haskellers have invested an awful lot of
work in those conventional patterns, in readibility, in
optimisations, and in linking them with other
Sorry to enter the discussion a little late ...
First, I'm not clear what Simon meant by first class abstractions
in this comment
Several proposals suggest first class abstractions rather that
first-class patterns. Here are the ones I know of ...
Second, I completely agree with Claus in
On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
I'm thinking of implementing it in GHC, so I'd be interested in
feedback of the form
- how desirable is it to have a feature of this general form?
While it looks like a useful extension with a lot of bang for the buck,
I think
