On Thu, 24 May 2007, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: | Just another remark about the statement above. | Even if that is common in the current SPAD code, I don't like to see quotes | around the +. Quotes should be reserved to produce strings.
that is a syntax issue, not semantics. :-) I would not engage on syntax at this moment | You probably know that quotes in Aldor mean to call the function | | string: Literal -> SomeType Yes. | So with a little work the above statement could be made litterally working in | Aldor, but for my taste I would rather like to write | | (+)/[1,2,3] | | since the parentheses let the + forget about its infixedness (see AUG). I know -- same in Haskell (and Boot). | Writing _+ (underscore plus) would be better, but also doesn't look very | attractive to me. As I said, we're going there into syntax discussion, not semantics :-) -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-math mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-math
