[Haskell-cafe] Re: "GADT" rhymes with "cat"

Anton van Straaten anton at appsolutions.com
Sun Mar 16 23:18:20 EDT 2008


Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> Anton van Straaten wrote:
>> Those who believe that GADTs are unnecessary might appreciate the 
>> guttural pronunciation of "gat": which is something like "chut" where 
>> the "ch" is similar to that in "loch", and for good measure, it rhymes 
>> with "slut" (at least in Afrikaans).  It lends itself well to being 
>> uttered contemptuously.
> 
> Who thinks GADTs are unnecessary, and why?

I was thinking of this:

   http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2692

and this:

   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14764

These links may give some clues as to "who", but I wasn't really 
thinking of anyone in particular.

Anton



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