On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Will Ness <will_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Luke Palmer <lrpalmer <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> >> Or you could use the "subtract" function. >> >> >>> map (subtract 2) [3,4,5] >> [1,2,3] > > I don't want to.
I think at about this point, this stopped being an intellectual discussion. Preparing for academic flame war... >> >> I don't think syntax sugar is worth it in this case. > > > I do. Operators are great because they make our intent visible, immediately > apparent. Long words' meaning, like subtract's, is not immediately apparent, > and they break consistency. Not everyone's first language in life was English, > you see. > > (`foldl`2) works. > > (`-`2) should too. > > I'll settle for (+(-2)) for now, but it ain't that pretty. > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
