[Haskell-cafe] Re: Implicit concatenation in list comprehensions
Bulat Ziganshin bulat.zigans...@gmail.com writes: Hello Neil, Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 1:26:55 PM, you wrote: ++ [ -i | not (null (ghcOptSearchPath opts)) ] ++ [ -i, dir | dir - ghcOptSearchPath opts ] Following the discussions, I now support this extension too - I keep seeing more and more places in my code where it would be very useful. ++[ -i | not (null (ghcOptSearchPath opts)) ] ++ concat [ [-i, dir] | dir - ghcOptSearchPath opts ] That looks good enough to convince me that new syntax gains too little here. When adding stuff to the syntax you have to be very careful about interactions between forms, and possible errors. The more you add, the more likely it is that something horrible gets overlooked. And learning haskell becomes more tedious (you have to learn stuff that you'd never use because other people will). Having a fairly small amount of flexible syntax (and Haskell is already pushing the boundaries of fairly small) together with powerful abstraction tools is far better than having a syntax so huge that no-one can see how weak the abstractions are... I keep trying, but I don't think I can finish this posting without mentioning Perl, whose aficionados have so much investment in having learned all that crap that they can't see how awful it is. -- Jón Fairbairn jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Implicit concatenation in list comprehensions
Speaking as a perl programmer I find that a bit insulting. We do see how awful some of it is. perl4-perl5-perl6 have been as much about cleanup as adding functionality. And I would have thought this forum would have been more aware that after Audrey built the first perl6 interpreter basically overnight in Haskell that almost every perl aficionado around has looked at Haskell and many have learned it and that it's a major contributor to the design space of perl6. But then nobody beats a dead horse so I'll just keep laughing all the way to the bank on my perl programs. :) -ljr Jon Fairbairn wrote: Having a fairly small amount of flexible syntax (and Haskell is already pushing the boundaries of fairly small) together with powerful abstraction tools is far better than having a syntax so huge that no-one can see how weak the abstractions are... I keep trying, but I don't think I can finish this posting without mentioning Perl, whose aficionados have so much investment in having learned all that crap that they can't see how awful it is. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Re: Implicit concatenation in list comprehensions
It was the perl community that brought me to haskell - by their interesting choice of implementation language for Pugs - and I'm grateful to them for this among other things! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Implicit concatenation in list comprehensions
Hello Simon, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 11:47:17 PM, you wrote: It was the perl community that brought me to haskell - by their interesting choice of implementation language for Pugs - for me, Pugs development tale is Beast and Beauty of programming world :) -- Best regards, Bulatmailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
