> but afair you don't yet have too much experience even with H98 > language? from my POV, H98 as is useful for learning, but not for real > apps. there is wide common subset of GHC and Hugs language extensions > and this set (with exception for FD) will probably become new Haskell' > standard
The problem I face is that most (all?) Haskell books I could find deal with Haskell 98... Are there any books out that cover the "modern" Haskell extensions? Peter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bulat Ziganshin Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 10:33 To: Andrew Coppin Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] A very nontrivial parser Hello Andrew, Thursday, July 5, 2007, 11:45:14 PM, you wrote: > Personally, I just try to avoid *all* language extensions - mainly > because most of them are utterly incomprehensible. (But then, perhaps > that's just because they all cover extremely rare edge cases?) > MPTCs and ATs look useful. The rest... hmm. If I ever figure out what > they do, maybe I can comment. but afair you don't yet have too much experience even with H98 language? from my POV, H98 as is useful for learning, but not for real apps. there is wide common subset of GHC and Hugs language extensions and this set (with exception for FD) will probably become new Haskell' standard one problem of Haskell popularity is that language is rather complex to learn. but one doesn't need to learn it all from the beginning. in my *application* program i don't used even type classes but when i've started to write general-purpose libs, aspiration to develop as general solution as possible quickly leads to using all kinds of Haskell type hackery -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.1/888 - Release Date: 06/07/2007 06:36 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.1/888 - Release Date: 06/07/2007 06:36 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
