Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell philosophy question

2009-05-21 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
2009/5/17 Vasili I. Galchin vigalc...@gmail.com: Hello, I am confused between Haskell as delineated in the Haskell Report VS ghc pragmas which extend Haskell beyond the Haskell Report. I am sure I am not the first to ask. Caveat: on my part, I am not against innovation/extensions, but I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell philosophy question

2009-05-21 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On May 21, 2009, at 03:13 , Yaakov Nemoy wrote: you would still be using KR C to get your work done, because you were afraid of bloat. Actually you'd still be using BCPL. :) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell philosophy question

2009-05-18 Thread Henning Thielemann
Vasili I. Galchin schrieb: Hello, I am confused between Haskell as delineated in the Haskell Report VS ghc pragmas which extend Haskell beyond the Haskell Report. I am sure I am not the first to ask. Caveat: on my part, I am not against innovation/extensions, but I don't like to see

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell philosophy question

2009-05-17 Thread Vasili I. Galchin
Hello, I am confused between Haskell as delineated in the Haskell Report VS ghc pragmas which extend Haskell beyond the Haskell Report. I am sure I am not the first to ask. Caveat: on my part, I am not against innovation/extensions, but I don't like to see language bloat. This is not a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell philosophy question

2009-05-17 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On May 17, 2009, at 02:32 , Vasili I. Galchin wrote: I am confused between Haskell as delineated in the Haskell Report VS ghc pragmas which extend Haskell beyond the Haskell Report. I am sure I am not the first to ask. Caveat: on my part, I am not against innovation/extensions, but I