[Haskell-cafe] Some thoughts on Type-Directed Name Resolution

wren ng thornton wren at freegeek.org
Sun Feb 12 07:36:30 CET 2012


On 2/8/12 10:10 PM, Anthony Clayden wrote:
>> I chose the most available non-ASCII character I could
>> find. Set the criterion to be "present in most ISO 8-bit
>> character sets" and there are really only two candidates,
>> section sign and degrees sign. ...
>
> Brilliant! We'll use degrees sign for function composition
> (so that it follows the convention in everything except a
> handful of obscure programming languages).

Even better, use the section symbol for getting and setting the various 
sections/fields of a record! ;)

-- 
Live well,
~wren



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