DDC compiler and effects; better than Haskell? (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] unsafeDestructiveAssign?)

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Wed Aug 12 15:40:36 EDT 2009


bugfact:
> Well, the point is that you still have monadic and pure programming
> styles. It's true that applicative style programming can help here,
> but then you have these <$> and <*> operators everywhere, which also
> feels like boilerplate code (as you mention, some extensions could
> help here)

Overloading whitespace as application in the Identity idiom! :)

-- Do


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