[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: GotoT-transformers version 1.0

Henning Thielemann schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de
Wed Sep 8 15:55:32 EDT 2010


Gregory Crosswhite schrieb:
>  People want to believe that Haskell is a better language than C, but
> how could this possibly be true when Haskell lacks the very basic "goto"
> feature???  If the world is going to take Haskell seriously, then this
> serious blight needs to be addressed immediately!  Thus I proud to
> present to you the "GotoT-transformers" package which provides this
> missing functionality and so finally makes Haskell a serious contender
> with C.

To be honest, when writing mutually depending functions that extensively
rely on tail recursion optimization, this often looks a lot like GOTO
already.



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