Achim Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miguel Mitrofanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think you might be interested in > > http://www.research.att.com/~bs/whitespace98.pdf > > > "Instead, it was decided to by default limit identifiers to a single > character" > > The Wisdom of it! Preparing C++ programmers for Haskell's limitation! > (In the category haha-only-serious, make does nearly exactly what the paper suggests:
$f = bar $foo -> baroo $(foo) -> bar I never noticed its genius until I tried out omake, where a bit of hacking gives you enough opportunities to use one-character variables/functions in narrow scopes) -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
