On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 at 14:15:12 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:
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I think that -> is neither unnecessary nor noise. After having
played with Haskell for a while, I actually find the syntax of
D unnecessarily redundant.
Oh, D is hardly a good example for syntax! Better than C++
doesn't say much..
That said, I don't see how one could prefer 'a -> b -> c' over
'a,b -> c' in this case..
This is not the only 'visual noise' in Haskell: for example
Idris replaced '::' by ':', a good change IMHO.
That is probably because ':' is the list append operator
already.
Yes, it's the other way round in Idris, but for once I prefer D's
operator '~': list appending is common enough that it deserves a
proper operator not a doubled one :: like in Idris or other
(Scala?).
renoX
