On Monday, 4 February 2013 at 08:02:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Monday, February 04, 2013 04:34:32 deadalnix wrote:
3/ Haskell
In haskell, all functions are pure, which make the conflation
between the function and its result possible in an unambiguous
manner.
Haskell doesn't even really have variables per se. It's more
like they're
functions with no arguments. The functional world - especially
a purely
functional world - is a very different place from that of a
systems programming
language. And there are no parens on functions in haskell of
any kind to begin
with. The syntax isn't C-like at all. So, I don't think that
it's really a
valid comparison. The real question is what's happened with
C-like languages
that have attempted to make parens on function calls optional.
I don't know
enough about the other languages that you list though to say
whether they
would qualify.
Yes, in such language, you'll find no difference between a
function and a variable. It does work because everything is pure
and immutable.
The point is that it does not apply to D.
