-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 February 2002 03:35, Ashley Yakeley wrote: > At 2002-02-19 09:56, Richard Uhtenwoldt wrote: > >>This is reflection! I'd rather not have Haskell contaminated with such > >>things; > > > >Can you say a little more about why you think reflection is bad? > >Does it make the language implementation run slower? > > It's ugly, and isn't part of the spirit of the language.
The above statement cannot be a basis for any argument against Bernard's proposal. Where Bernard makes a careful analysis of the matter, you introduce your prejudice. Since you are defining the spirit of the language, perhaps you could make a list of the "parts" of that spirit so that people will not come up with any proposal that violates your understanding of aesthetics. A general concept such as reflection cannot be deemed as worthless in itself. Any system that has a tiny bit of introspective powers can be said to be reflective to some extent, for instance a Haskell interpreter. Thanks, - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8cysgfAeuFodNU5wRAuc2AJ9UW0VRcxSqs0dS/rIN7/YBaXBO2wCfRtbB +5ZG8wk9nZH3Z7WEz7rNvqw= =NevV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
