Daniel,
you wrote:
I suspect I would be classified as a newbie relative to most posters on
this list but here's my thoughts anyway...
[...]
One of my initial responses to haskell was disappointment upon seeing
head,
fromJust and the like. 'Those look nasty', I sez to meself.
From day one
John Hughes wrote:
From: Robert Dockins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems to me that every possible use of a partial function has some
(possibly imagined) program invariant that prevents it from failing.
Otherwise it is downright wrong. 'head', 'fromJust' and friends
don't do anything to put that
