On 9/25/07, Brian Hulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...I seem to dimly recall that there is a natural language > somewhere that also uses it but I can't remember which one.
Every permutation of [S,V,O] appears in 'nature': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order. > Also, a problem might be that it is not so easy to use the multiple-clause style of function definition I disagree, it's easier with postfix functions. With prefix functions, to get line-up you insert space in the middle of the line. With postfix notation you would often insert space at the beginning of a line, a much easier place to insert text, because there is a keystroke, in most text editors, to take you to the beginning of a line. > It's not so clear to me what the syntax for types should be in a postfix > language. Postfix, of course! So you'd write data a Tree = Leaf | a a Tree Confusingly, ocaml does something like this, with postfix notation for types and prefix notation for function application. -- Dan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
