On 2/3/12 6:13 AM, Gábor Lehel wrote: > The first problem is that mixing prefix and postfix function > application within the same line makes it harder to read. When you > read code to try to understand what it does, the direction you like to > go in is "here's some object, first do this to it, then do that to it, > then do this other thing to it, then this fourth thing to produce the > final result". In Haskell code with prefix application, this is easy: > you read it from right to left. In OO-style code using dots, it's even > easier: you read it from left to right. But if you mix the two, it's > much harder than either: you first have to figure out where the > sentence even begins, which is going to be somewhere in the middle, > and then every time the expression switches between prefix and > postfix, you have to figure out where to continue reading. The > algorithm your brain needs to follow is a lot branchier, so to speak.
It's just as easy as reading function pointers in C :) -- Live well, ~wren _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
