Hi, Am Montag, den 11.07.2016, 08:31 +0200 schrieb Sven Panne: > Because at first glance, this is visually only a tiny fraction away > from > > (if c then f else g) it d them a elsa b > > which would be parsed in a totally different way. (Personally, I > think that if/then/else is useless in Haskell and just a concession > for readers from other programming languages. Having a plain old "if" > function would have done the job in a more consistent way.) Of course > syntax highlighting improves readability here, but code should be > easily digestible in black and white, too. Visual clues matter...
I believe we can and should expect programmers to know the keywords (there are not many of them) and should _not_ compromise other goals for “makes similar sense even if a keyword is mistake or mistyped as a symbol name”. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de • https://www.joachim-breitner.de/ XMPP: nome...@joachim-breitner.de • OpenPGP-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nome...@debian.org
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