[Haskell-cafe] Re: Just for a laugh...

[Dougal Stanton]

On 31 May 2007 21:52:33 +0100, Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Yes, but you didn't say that it's not only silly but
> demonstrates the opposite of expressiveness as it's all
> about breaking an abstraction and must be non-portable code
> (because it's definition is that it won't give the same
> results on different hardware), so such code should be
> *hard* to write in a good language.

Well, I would suggest that maybe *good* is not completely congruent
with *expressive* (at least for this case). If I want to write a
program to learn how IEEE floats are constructed, by destructing them,
then I *should* be able to.

I have no solutions of my own though :-( I wait in eager expectation....

D.