[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Probably a trivial thing for people knowing Haskell

2008-10-20 Thread Chris Eidhof
I think it might be more appropriate to move this discussion to haskell-cafe. On 19 okt 2008, at 17:24, Friedrich wrote: Learn to love types: one of the neat things about Haskell is that if you can write down the type of a function then you have usually done 90% of the work of writing the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Probably a trivial thing for people knowing Haskell

2008-10-20 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Chris Eidhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it might be more appropriate to move this discussion to haskell-cafe. On 19 okt 2008, at 17:24, Friedrich wrote: Learn to love types: one of the neat things about Haskell is that if you can write down the type

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Probably a trivial thing for people knowing Haskell

2008-10-20 Thread Achim Schneider
Jason Dagit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something I have noticed about myself now that I can think in types to some degree is that reading the documentation for apis in non-typeful languages, I'll pick on python, is now harder! Well, something I have noticed is a definitive lack of documentation

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Probably a trivial thing for people knowing Haskell

2008-10-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Friedrich wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Because file reading is lazy, each line is only read when it is to be processed, and then gets reaped by the garbage collector. So it all runs in constant memory. Would you mind to elaborate a bit about it. What's so