Re: Pattern guards

2006-09-30 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
, all they do is add a tiny bit of syntactic sugar to make programmer's lives a little bit easier - and they're not even adding anything completely new, just extending existing features. /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862 ___ Haskell

Re: Strict tuples

2006-03-20 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On 3/20/06, Sebastian Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/19/06, Manuel M T Chakravarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Loosely related to Ticket #76 (Bang Patterns) is the question of whether we want the language to include strict tuples. It is related to bang patterns, because its sole

Re: Strict tuples

2006-03-20 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On 3/20/06, Manuel M T Chakravarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Sylvan: On 3/19/06, Manuel M T Chakravarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Loosely related to Ticket #76 (Bang Patterns) is the question of whether we want the language to include strict tuples. It is related to bang

Re: Haskell-prime Digest, Vol 2, Issue 58

2006-02-24 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
). A likely coding practice would be to put short and simply defitions in the public interface, but using the exporting feature for larger functions (which need a significant amount of local helper functions etc.). /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862

Re: public/private module sections (was: Haskell-prime Digest, Vol 2, Issue 58)

2006-02-24 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
functions where public (whereas private is implied -- or maybe not even allowing it to save a keyword). But having to type one of public or private at each function site would get really tedious... /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862

Re: The dreaded M-R

2006-01-30 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
a problem very rarely, it could be noted in an optimization faq somewhere. Plus, don't we already tell people to add type signatures when something is too slow? Isn't that the first thing you would try when something is surprisingly slow? /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862

Re: Existential types: want better syntactic support (autoboxing?)

2006-01-30 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
nice with e.g. type inference. /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862 ___ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime