| | * Pattern matching on polymorphic fields. This does not appear to be
| | too controversial, although Atze had some reservations about this
| | design choice.
...
| So far, most replys seemed to agree that this is not a big
| restriction. Could you give more details on how you think that
| I don't think that the rank-N system is any more expressive then the
| rank-2 one. The reason is that by placing a polymorphic value in a
| datatype we can decrese its rank. In this way we can reduce a program
Hmm. To be consistent, then, you'd have to argue for rank-2 data constructors
On Feb 3, 2007, at 6:35 AM, Douglas Philips wrote:
Well, if we're going to bring personal points of view in, it highly
pisses me off that in a construct such as:
( expr ,
expr ,
expr ,
expr ,
expr ,
)
I have to be vigilant to remove that trailing comma when it is in
_no way_
Iavor Diatchki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think that the rank-N system is any more expressive then the
rank-2 one. The reason is that by placing a polymorphic value in a
datatype we can decrese its rank. In this way we can reduce a program
of any rank to just rank-2.
The same
