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1. Re: types, parentheses, application, composition (Kim-Ee Yeoh)
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:38:58 +0700
From: Kim-Ee Yeoh <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] types, parentheses, application,
composition
To: Christopher Howard <[email protected]>
Cc: Haskell Beginners <[email protected]>
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Whoops, sorry for the noise. Those bullet points were the outline of some
notes I'm putting together.
-- Kim-Ee
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Kim-Ee Yeoh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Christopher Howard <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Beautiful explanation. The clouds are starting to clear. In particular,
>> previously I did not understand that 1) parentheses are in all types but
>> are omitted for readability when possible, and 2) when an argument is
>> supplied to a function it unifies the supplied parameter type with the
>> argument type. Knowing this makes a huge difference in looking at these
>> transformations.
>>
>
> (1) parens are everywhere, some of them you don't see because of default
> associativity
> (2) type-inferencing unification is utterly opaque and mysterious
>
>
> -- Kim-Ee
>
>
>> --
>> frigidcode.com
>>
>>
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