>> Never mind, that GHC compiler was again more clever than me, sigh. >> That's really frustrating about Haskell: the compiler captures so many >> errors at compile time, that newbies hardly get anything done, it's >> a constant battle against the errors. But once it compiles, it usually >> works at runtime :-) > This is what I love about Haskell: If it typechecks, it probably does the > thing you meant it to. I've never seen any other language like > it. It's amazing!
Next stop: Coq, where the fight with the type checker is so much more difficult that when the code finally type checks you don't even need to run it at all. Stefan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe