<div dir="auto">Come on guys, let's keep it respectful, especially considering this is the libraries list. Lively debate is good, but it shouldn't turn to noise.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 2, 2017 1:33 AM, "Tony Morris" <<a href="mailto:tonymorris@gmail.com">tonymorris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Join me in not caring about the names. Again, use the types.<br>
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It's triply hilarious that we have a typed programming language, and an<br>
increasingly disproportionate user base who don't know how to use those<br>
types. What is this? Amateur hour? Python exists.<br>
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On 02/04/17 18:22, Henrik Nilsson wrote:<br>
> On 04/02/2017 01:56 AM, Tony Morris wrote:<br>
>> length :: f a -> Int<br>
>><br>
>> We immediately know that values of the kind (* -> *) slot in to the<br>
>> value (f), with a kind checker to ensure we get it correct. Therefore,<br>
>> we can easily reason about the length of values of kind ((,) a)<br>
>><br>
>> I do find it hilarious that this discussion continued using the term<br>
>> "tuple" as if to make a reasonable point. KIND ERROR.<br>
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> And it's doubly hilarious that that the above argument is put forward<br>
> without any regard for picking an appropriate name for the concept,<br>
> which most certainly is very different from "length" as used in<br>
> everyday parlance, physics, mathematics, and any CS text-book on<br>
> data-structures and algorithms I've ever seen.<br>
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> Best,<br>
><br>
> /Henrik<br>
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