[Haskell-cafe] Arrows: definition of pure & arr

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Exactly. And that must be one of the reasons the Java designers said 
"no" to operator overloading? That kind of programmers just don't like 
operators I guess. But we do :-)  Although I would prefer nice math 
symbols and layout instead of the :~> ASCII art.

Thielemann wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
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>> But when I show typical Haskell code to object-oriented friends of mine,
>> they get scared because it looks like math, with all the symbols and
>> short names.
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> They will feel like a C programmer looking at C++ code, wondering how the
> heck an output stream can be left shifted by a number using << .  :-)
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