On Tuesday, 7 August 2012 at 18:36:28 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
The problem isn't about following haskell precisely or not (I
think
we shouldn't). The problem is wanting to have everything, and
resulting in getting nothing.
Let's take haskell as example. Function are all pure. So it
doesn't
matter when a function get executed or not, and, as a result,
haskell don't need a explicit function call like () in D.
That's not a good example. Haskell may not use parentheses for
function parameters, but that has nothing to do with purity, or
even
with non-strict evaluation. It's because, syntactically,
concatenation
in Haskell represents function application. The Haskell
expression:
f x y z
is equivalent to the Haskell expression:
(((f x) y) z)
translated into D syntax:
((f(x))(y))(z), or just f(x)(y)(z).
Graham
