Re: [elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

I'm an observer (not an Elm programmer) but these discussions are interesting to me. I guess the question Elm programmers have to ask themselves is what Elm's purpose is? Haskell/traditional Functional ML language in the browser? PureScript fits that mold already, but if so the recent changes

Re: [elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

Once, that I remember, after a refactoring. But this is more to do with the ease of reading code. I've several times seen foldr and read foldl. In general, I find names that differ by only a single letter a bad thing. Like wether and whether. Sure, now that i've pointed out that there is a

Re: [elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 1:45:35 PM UTC+1, James Hamilton wrote: > > I agree with your sentiment in principle. I suppose the underlying >> question is whether or not this is actually going to be such a benefit to >> future users of elm that it would be worth inconveniencing current users

Re: [elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

I did a lot of work in ember myself, and I feel your pain, but this is still a 0.x product, and so it should be expected that some breakage is performed while we reach the best possible state of the language. It's different for Ember, which had a lot of breakage post 1.0. tirsdag 25. oktober

Re: [elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

> > I agree with your sentiment in principle. I suppose the underlying > question is whether or not this is actually going to be such a benefit to > future users of elm that it would be worth inconveniencing current users > who want to upgrade. Personally I'm quite comfortable with foldr and

Re: [elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

As people pointed out - it's a BDFL call, but it feels to me that this is the closest candidate to the spirit of the recent 'Let's go mainstream' BDFL calls. (Assuming that foldRight is sufficiently less commonly used so as to not make the ample suffix 'Right' burdensome, and the lack of

Re: [elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

fold and foldRight then? tirsdag 25. oktober 2016 11.42.00 UTC+2 skrev Wouter In t Velt følgende: > > Op dinsdag 25 oktober 2016 02:20:29 UTC+2 schreef Max Goldstein: >> >> Changing things makes upgrading harder, invalidates old code, and gives >> the larger community the impression that Elm is

Re: [elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

Op dinsdag 25 oktober 2016 02:20:29 UTC+2 schreef Max Goldstein: > > Changing things makes upgrading harder, invalidates old code, and gives > the larger community the impression that Elm is not stable. > The question is whether different naming for "foldl" and "foldr" would bring enough

Re: [elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:20 AM, Max Goldstein wrote: > It really comes down to what Evan wants to do. People come to Elm from > many languages, and everyone has preferences. Changing things makes > upgrading harder, invalidates old code, and gives the larger community

Re: [elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

I would love more Ruby-like names across the board, except for the presence of aliases, but Elm grew out of Haskell so it carries some of that history. It really comes down to what Evan wants to do. People come to Elm from many languages, and everyone has preferences. Changing things makes

Re: [elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

> On Oct 20, 2016, at 9:12 AM, Robin Heggelund Hansen > wrote: > > In Elm 0.18, primes are being removed as valid characters in a > variable/function name. That’s unfortunate. Non-alphabetical characters can be really useful for signaling intent. For example, an

Re: [elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

I would be strongly opposed to renaming either foldl or foldr to just fold; that always confuses me when languages do it. martin On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Max Goldstein wrote: > Normally I'm opposed to syntax or name changes. But I think this or some > variation

[elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

Normally I'm opposed to syntax or name changes. But I think this or some variation is a good idea. (Maybe foldl becomes fold, since it's usually the one you want.) That said, it's all subject to Evan's approval. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[elm-discuss] Proposal: rename foldl til foldLeft and foldr to foldRight

In Elm 0.18, primes are being removed as valid characters in a variable/function name. The reason being, which I whole heartedly agree with, that removing primes will incentivize people to write proper names, and also because the difference between model and model' isn't always easy to spot.