On the Standard Haskell site,
Alastair Reid wrote:
One of the goals of Standard Haskell was to simplify the language
- removing traps and making it easier to teach/learn. We've seen
very little work on this, so I'd like to make the following proposal:
Let's remove all the little
If you want a functional scripting language with H-M type inference and
type
classes and monads, that's great, but maybe it should be something separate
from Haskell.
I have been promoting Haskell exactly for this purpose for some time now,
and I don't buy your points, e.g that
in a scripting
On 24-Jun-1998, Frank A. Christoph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
4) Module headers can be omitted.
If the module leaves out the module header, the header
module Main(main) where
is assumed.
[and that's a mistake]
Fix the compilers. If there's no module header, the
[I'm replying to both Fergus and Alastair in this message.]
This is a reply to Fergus Henderson's comments on my proposal.
My answer to all his comments is that consistent languages are
easier to learn than languages littered with exceptions, special cases
and random default behaviour.
On the
Fergus Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the Standard Haskell site,
Alastair Reid wrote:
1) Fixity declarations usually look like this:
infixl 6 +, -
but you can omit the precedence digit and write this instead:
infixl +, -
The programmer who
I think you're missing the point. Omitting the precedence digit is
important because it allows the programmer to avoid making a decision
about something he doesn't really care about. Most of the time,
you're not interested in the relative precedence of `thenP` vs. (+),
since it doesn't
Frank A. Christoph wrote:
If you want a functional scripting language with H-M type inference and
type
classes and monads, that's great, but maybe it should be something separate
from Haskell.
Haskell is, according to my experiences with tool integration, the
ultimate scripting language
This is a reply to Fergus Henderson's comments on my proposal.
My answer to all his comments is that consistent languages are
easier to learn than languages littered with exceptions, special cases
and random default behaviour.
1) Fixity declarations usually look like this:
infixl 6
