[Haskell-cafe] Re: Is "take" behaving correctly?

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Thu Sep 13 14:13:19 EDT 2007


Jules Bean wrote:
> I'm not delighted with the idea of replacing our concise elegant 
> standard library names with 
> uglyAndRatherLongCamelCaseNamesThatCouldBePerlOrEvenJava though. 
> Conciseness of expression is a virtue.

I, on the other hand, I'm not delighted with names such as "Eq" and 
"Ord". (Would it be *so* hard to write "Equal" and "Ordered"?) This is 
one of the main things I'd have done differently if I'd designed 
Haskell... not that anybody is too bothered. ;-)



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