Re: Multiple imports on a single line
So it's O(N) -> O(1) where N is a number of lines/imports. But you're right for the readiness. I'm convinced! 2017-02-02 16:52 GMT+02:00 Doug McIlroy : > > I often see a confusion between greater expresiveness (good goal) and > > having to type less (largely irrelevant goal). By all means make the > module > > system more expressive, but try to avoid "clever" things for convenience. > > To expand upon this principle a bit, syntactic sugar that promises to save > O(1) > typing in an n-line module is suspect; that which might save O(n) is more > promising. > > Doug > > > ___ > Haskell-prime mailing list > Haskell-prime@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime > ___ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
Re: Multiple imports on a single line
> I often see a confusion between greater expresiveness (good goal) and > having to type less (largely irrelevant goal). By all means make the module > system more expressive, but try to avoid "clever" things for convenience. To expand upon this principle a bit, syntactic sugar that promises to save O(1) typing in an n-line module is suspect; that which might save O(n) is more promising. Doug ___ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
Re: Multiple imports on a single line
Sven Panne writes: > I often see a confusion between greater expresiveness (good goal) and > having to type less (largely irrelevant goal). By all means make the module > system more expressive, but try to avoid "clever" things for convenience. +1 -- Jón Fairbairn jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk ___ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
