[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) --
first release
Lennart Augustsson
lennart at augustsson.net
Thu Apr 23 05:02:45 EDT 2009
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Richard O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> - a somewhat bogus claim about how much of the library you need to
> know how to use it (of COURSE you need to know about integers in
> order to use an integer operation, what's so bad about that?)
> - the claim that + doesn't mean + (this is really an argument about
> the scope of + and could have been dealt with by ruling that n+k
> is only available when the version of + in scope is the one from
> the Prelude)
What's bogus about that claim? Then n+k patterns have type (Integral
a) => a, so you need to know about type classes and Integral.
Even if it's listed as a reason, you rest assure that the Haskell'
committee did consider how widespread the use of n+k was before
removing it. Of course, this can only be an educated guess.
Of course, n+k will be missed by Haskell obfuscators. I mean, what
will we do without
(+) + 1 + 1 = (+)
?
-- Lennart
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