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Today's Topics:
1. Representing most types by the same letter (Christopher Howard)
2. Re: Representing most types by the same letter (Stephen Tetley)
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:39:29 -0900
From: Christopher Howard <[email protected]>
Subject: [Haskell-beginners] Representing most types by the same
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To: Haskell Beginners <[email protected]>
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Hi. I'm trying to learn Haskore, and it seems rather odd: Why are most
types in the system represented by the same letter, the letter 'T'? For
example, instead of a Scale type, a Duration type, and a Pitch type,
there is a T type in the Scale module, a T type in the Duration module,
and a T type in the Pitch module. It makes the documentation rather
challenging to read, because I have to read the link for each appearance
of the letter to see what type it is referring to. Is there some theory
behind this practice?
--
frigidcode.com
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:28:19 +0000
From: Stephen Tetley <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Representing most types by the same
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To: Christopher Howard <[email protected]>
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Hi Christopher
This is due to Henning Thielemann - I believe it is an idiom used in
Modula 3, though it hasn't otherwise caught on in Haskell.
If Henning doesn't read this list and reply in due course, you could
try punting the conversation to the Haskell-Art list...
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