suggestion to Haskell standard

1995-09-11 Thread Sergei D. Meshveliani
Suggestion for Standard Prelude. To replace such standard prelude functions as min,minimum,sort etc. with their "function-argument" variants. For example: data Compare = LT | GT | EQ sort :: (a -> a -> Compare) -> [a] -> [a] -- cp xs cp x y -> LT

Re: suggestion to Haskell standard

1995-09-11 Thread reid
Sergei D. Meshveliani proposes: > To replace such standard prelude functions as min,minimum,sort etc. > with their "function-argument" variants. This has been part of the plan for some time. The following has an up-to-date description of the proposal. http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS