Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can I use String without in ghci?

2013-09-01 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 01/09/13 07:02, yi lu wrote: I want to know if it is possible that I use strings without . If I type *Preludefoo bar* which actually I mean *Preludefoo bar* However I don't want to type s. I have noticed if *bar* is predefined or it is a number, it can be used as arguments. But can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can I use String without in ghci?

2013-09-01 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 13-09-01 02:02 AM, yi lu wrote: I have noticed if *bar* is predefined or it is a number, it can be used as arguments. But can other strings be used this way? Like in bash, we can use *ping 127.0.0.1* where *127.0.0.1* is an argument. Does Bash have a rich type system, like Haskell? Does

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can I use String without in ghci?

2013-09-01 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 13-09-01 02:41 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: It's a bit like asking whether you can do addition everywhere by just typing the numbers to each other (no cheating and defining number literals as functions ;) ). To your horror, common math language does some of that. When 3 and ½ are typed

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can I use String without in ghci?

2013-09-01 Thread Michael Sloan
Not that I really want to encourage such a stringly typed practice, but it wouldn't really be that much of a stretch. * Use haskell-src-exts[0] and haskell-src-meta[1] to make a quasiquoter that can parse Haskell syntax * Use syb[2] or some other generics to find VarE and ConE expressions. In

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can I use String without in ghci?

2013-09-01 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
On 1/09/2013, at 6:02 PM, yi lu wrote: I want to know if it is possible that I use strings without . If I type Preludefoo bar which actually I mean Preludefoo bar However I don't want to type s. I have noticed if bar is predefined or it is a number, it can be used as arguments. But

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can I use String without in ghci?

2013-09-01 Thread Rustom Mody
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: A slogan I have programmed by since I first met C and recognised how vastly superior to PL/I it was for text manipulation _because_ it didn't have a proper string type is Strings are Wrong!. I wonder if you notice the irony in your

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can I use String without in ghci?

2013-09-01 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
On 2/09/2013, at 3:55 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: A slogan I have programmed by since I first met C and recognised how vastly superior to PL/I it was for text manipulation _because_ it didn't have a proper string type is Strings are