Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] re-definition of '.'

2005-11-22 Thread Max Eronin
is the word OOP persuade so strange on you? No, my brain exploded by the examples and proposed rules made me look so When it is exploding I often start acting funnily. And I was fortunate enough not to begin biting the dogs and scratching the cats after an attempt to predict an order of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] records proposals list

2005-11-21 Thread Max Eronin
On 11/21/05, David Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: class Coord a where get_x :: a - Double get_y :: a - Double set_x :: Double - a - a set_y :: Double - a - a I'd say this is a typical OO solution to the problem that doesn't exist Why do you need setters and getters for coordinate

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Records (was Re: [Haskell] Improvements to GHC)

2005-11-21 Thread Max Eronin
On 11/18/05, Sebastian Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not saying it's impossible to make good use of (.), I'm saying that it's not crucial enough to warrant giving it the dot, which in my opinion is one of the best symbols (and I'd hand it over to record selection any day of the week!).

Re: [Haskell-cafe] re-definition of '.'

2005-11-21 Thread Max Eronin
2) sequential functions application in OOP style: [1..100] .map (2*) .sum Great proposal! And the only feature haskell will lack is computable go to! And if we add both haskell would become the most expressive and powerful programming language since INTERCAL --max