[Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

Manlio Perillo manlio_perillo at libero.it
Thu Jan 15 18:22:58 EST 2009


John Goerzen ha scritto:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Don Stewart noticed this blog post on Haskell by Brian Hurt, an OCaml
> hacker:
> 
> http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/2009/01/15/random-thoughts-on-haskell/
> 
> It's a great post, and I encourage people to read it.  I'd like to
> highlight one particular paragraph:
> 
> 
>   One thing that does annoy me about Haskell- naming. 

I'm fine with current names.

However I would like to see better documentation, and examples.

You can't just have in the documentation:
this is xxx from yyy branch of mathematics, see this paper.

You should explain how (and why) to use xxx.

 > [...]


Regards Manlio Perillo


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