On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Ch. A. Herrmann wrote: > Concerning the point someone made about the features of Haskell: > * pattern matching: just case distinction > * list comprehensions: syntactic sugar > These are indeed local syntactic issues but the amount of such small things > is essential to make things easy, in addition to semantic issues like > laziness.
According to http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/History_of_Haskell two main styles of functional programming have established: "Declaration style" and "Expression style". The features you emphasize support to the declaration style. I prefer mostly the expression style and I don't feel I'm missing something important. > Assume that you do not have them: then your programs would look > as verbose as Java or LISP programs. The notation [f x | x <- xs] describes operations on list elements, and looks like the imperative "forall x in xs do f x", whereas map f xs is a list transformation. The second one is more abstract, isn't it? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe