Re: Teaching

2006-11-30 Thread Philippa Cowderoy
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Iavor Diatchki wrote: > Hello, > > On 11/30/06, Philippa Cowderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This experienced user regularly uses a haskell interpreter for a desk > > calculator, not to mention for producing readable budgets that show all > > the working. Removing default

Re: Teaching

2006-11-30 Thread Iavor Diatchki
Hello, On 11/30/06, Philippa Cowderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Ashley Yakeley wrote: > That something might confuse the beginning user should count for nothing if it > does not annoy the more experienced user. > This experienced user regularly uses a haskell interpreter

Re: Teaching

2006-11-30 Thread Philippa Cowderoy
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Ashley Yakeley wrote: > That something might confuse the beginning user should count for nothing if it > does not annoy the more experienced user. > This experienced user regularly uses a haskell interpreter for a desk calculator, not to mention for producing readable budge

Re: Teaching

2006-11-29 Thread Bernie Pope
On 30/11/2006, at 3:36 PM, Ashley Yakeley wrote: Malcolm Wallace wrote: Unfortunately, I suspect that teaching is _the_ major use-case for defaulting. Imagine, day one, lesson one, a student types Prelude> 1+2 into Hugs, and gets the response Unresolved overloading: Num a Huh? This i