<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:57 AM, Johannes Waldmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johannes.waldmann@htwk-leipzig.de" target="_blank">johannes.waldmann@htwk-leipzig.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> <a href="https://twitter.com/headinthebox/status/652834731806052352" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/headinthebox/status/652834731806052352</a><br>
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This mentions and :: Foldable t => t Bool -> Bool<br>
as an example of "abstract nonsense".<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I find it sad... that people like Erik Meijer, Mark Lentczer... (even Doug McIllroy recently demonstrated that there are 2⁹⁹ dialects of haskell!!) are not being heeded<br></div><div>And this complaint could be greatly alleviated with one little leaf drawn from racket -- language-packs: <a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/extending-drracket.html">teachpacks</a><br></div><div>Along with the single lightweight directive <a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Module_Syntax.html#%28part._hash-lang%29">#lang</a><br><br></div><div>It may naturally be asked how is #lang different from ghc's language "-X" options<br></div><div>A teachpack would be a bunch of coherent -X options maybe along with a suitable prelude<br></div></div>
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