Hello,
On 11/30/06, Philippa Cowderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> That something might confuse the beginning user should count for nothing if it
> does not annoy the more experienced user.
>
This experienced user regularly uses a haskell interpreter for a desk
calculator, not to mention for producing readable budgets that show all
the working. Removing defaulting would make that extremely tedious.
I do what you suggest all the time (I mean using Hugs as a calculator)
and I agree that it would be annoying without some sort of defaulting.
However, I am not sure that this particular use justifies the
addition of defaulting to the _language_. For example, it is possible
that defaulting is implemented as a switch to the command-line
interpreter.
By the way, I agree with Ashley that the "it is hard to teach"
argument is over-used.
-Iavor
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