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

Emir Pasalic pasalic at cs.rice.edu
Mon Mar 17 00:39:32 EDT 2008


And is the plural 'gatte'? :)

On Mar 16, 2008, at 11:18 PM, Anton van Straaten wrote:

> 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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