Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

2000-08-03 Thread Juan J. Quintela

 "nigel" == Nigel Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

nigel Disclaimer, as Fergus added one: I am working with Microsoft on .NET
nigel implementation, but I run Windows 2000 on my G3 PowerBook and take it
nigel to Microsoft with me. I'm biased on everything :-)

Windows 2000 in a G3 Powerbook? I am lost here :((

Later, Juan.



-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy




Re: Library conventions

2000-06-23 Thread Juan J. Quintela

 "chris" == Chris Okasaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

chris You've struck a pet peeve of mine.  These suffixes are doing namespace
chris management, avoiding name clashes between different things that you
chris want to call empty.  But Haskell already has a perfectly good language
chris mechanism for doing this -- the module system!  Why is emptyX preferable 
chris to X.empty?  The latter convention is much more flexible.  It allows the
chris user to 

I completely agree with chris in this point.

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy