Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-31 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/10 20:33 , C. McCann wrote: I suggest U+2621. Did you mean U+2620 SKULL AND CROSSBONES there? - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-31 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/10 22:30 , wren ng thornton wrote: On 10/29/10 8:33 PM, C. McCann wrote: I suggest U+2621. I'm not sure I'd've ever recognized a funny 'z' as caution sign... :) You'd have to be a TeX / Metafont user to get that one. (The LaTeX book

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-29 Thread Daniel Peebles
Speaking of MagicHash, is it really necessary to take an operator with potential like (#) just to keep primitive symbols separate from the rest? At least from my 2010 Haskell learner perspective, it seems odd to create a whole language extension/lexical change just for that purpose. On Thu, Oct

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-29 Thread wren ng thornton
On 10/29/10 11:18 AM, Daniel Peebles wrote: Speaking of MagicHash, is it really necessary to take an operator with potential like (#) just to keep primitive symbols separate from the rest? At least from my 2010 Haskell learner perspective, it seems odd to create a whole language

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-29 Thread C. McCann
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:54 PM, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: I'm sort of torn on this issue. On the one hand (#) has great potential as an operator, on the other hand I've found that having something like -XMagicHash (or TeX's \makeatletter and \makeatother) can be really helpful

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-29 Thread Bas van Dijk
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Ben Millwood hask...@benmachine.co.uk wrote: Personally I think function composition is what Haskell is all about and it is absolutely essential that the syntax for it be lightweight. If we think using . as qualification as well as composition is confusing, I'm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-29 Thread wren ng thornton
On 10/29/10 8:33 PM, C. McCann wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:54 PM, wren ng thorntonw...@freegeek.org wrote: I'm sort of torn on this issue. On the one hand (#) has great potential as an operator, on the other hand I've found that having something like -XMagicHash (or TeX's \makeatletter

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-29 Thread C. McCann
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:30 PM, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: I suggest U+2621. I'm not sure I'd've ever recognized a funny 'z' as caution sign... :) Well, I'm operating under the assumption that it's one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki_dangerous_bend_symbol I

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread John Smith
On 28/10/2010 10:15, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: Hi haskellers. Reading through the Haskell Prime suggestions, one that caught my eye is the CompositionAsDot issue. I'm especially thinking of the Pro issue: * Paves the way for using . as the selection operator in improved record or module

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread Ben Millwood
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:12 AM, John Smith volderm...@hotmail.com wrote: On 28/10/2010 10:15, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: Hi haskellers. Reading through the Haskell Prime suggestions, one that caught my eye is the CompositionAsDot issue. I'm especially thinking of the Pro issue: * Paves

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread wren ng thornton
On 10/28/10 10:42 AM, Ben Millwood wrote: Here's the wiki page: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/CompositionAsDot Personally I think function composition is what Haskell is all about and it is absolutely essential that the syntax for it be lightweight. If we think using . as