Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: can Haskell do everyting as we want?

2010-08-04 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Johannes Waldmann waldm...@imn.htwk-leipzig.de writes: My understanding of tab-completion in IDEs for Java, etc. is that it just displayed every single possible class method for a particular object value, and then did some kind of matching based upon what you typed to narrow down the list,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: can Haskell do everyting as we want?

2010-08-04 Thread Johannes Waldmann
However, if you tried to do s.equalsIgnoreCase(, does it offer to insert every single String available and every function that could result in a String? well, try this: String s = foo; String t = bar; int u = 42;

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: can Haskell do everyting as we want?

2010-08-04 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 4 August 2010 23:13, Johannes Waldmann waldm...@imn.htwk-leipzig.de wrote: However, if you tried to do s.equalsIgnoreCase(, does it offer to insert every single String available and every function that could result in a String? well, try this:                String s = foo;            

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: can Haskell do everyting as we want?

2010-08-04 Thread aditya siram
I think what the OP is asking for is a killer application of Haskell - Ruby, for example, is great for web programming because of Rails. The Haskell community is somewhat unique in that it has many killer apps and that confuses people. It's great for version control (Darcs), window managers