[Haskell-cafe] Re: monad subexpressions

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Sat Aug 4 12:44:46 EDT 2007


On Aug 4, 2007, at 11:48 , Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

> Hello Brandon,
>
> Saturday, August 4, 2007, 7:27:16 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On Aug 4, 2007, at 11:19 , Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
>
>>> and use it. want to assign a=b/(c+d)? nothing can be easier! just
>>> define one more macro!
>
>> And?  Everything above machine code is just "macros" at various
>> levels of abstraction, including all our favorite higher-level
>> abstractions.
>
> and what you prefer? assembler or high-level language?

That would be why I'm using a language which lets me compose things  
in complex ways.  And just once, abstracting it away into a library,  
which you seem to be missing.

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