On 06-Jun-1998, Josef Sveningsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The argument that the above declaration is tedios is, I think, irrelevant.
> First of all; ofcourse it would be nice if the compiler could generate
> everything that is possible derive but that is not always a help. Consider
> c++ were type-conversions can happen almost by magic and in situations
> where one wanted the compiler to report an error (it has happend to me a
> couple of times and is rather annoying). Secondly, talking about
> functional programming as tedious is being very lazy.
I thought functional programmers *liked* laziness! ;-)
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