Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Alex Young
Isaac Dupree wrote: Derek Elkins wrote: and you can have unboxed values in dynamically typed languages. really? Sure that's possible as an optimization, but I thought that to explicitly specify that would require a known static type. Or perhaps the bit-tagging by which some Scheme

Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-26 Thread Isaac Dupree
Michael Reid wrote: The power of Haskell's type system makes it feel like you are programming in a dynamic language to some degree, yet all of it is type-checked, and that is just *really* cool. to some degree, (in current Haskell compilers), it *is* more like a dynamic than a static

Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-26 Thread Isaac Dupree
Derek Elkins wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 20:49 -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote: Michael Reid wrote: The power of Haskell's type system makes it feel like you are programming in a dynamic language to some degree, yet all of it is type-checked, and that is just *really* cool. to some degree, (in