On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Andrew Pennebaker < andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A summary of the changes I've included so far: > > Noted and reflected... I'm trying to convey to an audience largely > composed of Java and C++ fanatics how Haskell records are much better than > OOP, how GADTs are more intuitive, robust, ... OOP doesn't even compare! > That's what I'm trying to get across in that bit. And it's hard to do this > in just a few sentences, especially when the reader isn't even familiar > with GADTs in the first place. > But, Haskell records aren't better than OOP. I am not trying to be controversial here -- Haskell records would "naturally" implement prototype-based OOP, like JavaScript uses, if they (Haskell records) weren't so useless. This is basically why "lenses" were designed (i.e., to make consistent syntax for getters and setters)
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