[Haskell-cafe] Proposal: New syntax for Haskell

[David Thomas]

I've long been interested in a scripting language designed to be spoken.
Not interested enough to go about making it happen... but the idea is
fascinating and possibly useful.


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de>wrote:

> **
>
> +1
>
> Cucumber seems to be great if you mainly want to read your code over the
> telephone, distribute it via national radio broadcast, or dictate it to
> your secretary or your voice recognition software.  You can program thus
> without having to use you fingers.  You can lie on your back on your sofa,
> close your eyes, and utter your programs...
>
> We could have blind Haskell/Cucumber programming contests...
>
> Tons of new possiblilities...
>
> Strongly support this proposal. ;-)
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2013-09-10 22:57, Artyom Kazak wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:20:26 +0400, Thiago Negri <evohunz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I hope these jokes do not cause people to be afraid to post new ideas.
>
> Agreed. I would also like to clarify that my message was much more a joke
> on
> the incomprehensibility of legal acts than on the original proposal.
>
> By the way, I am pretty impressed with this piece of Cucumber
> description/code:
>
>    Scenario: Mislav creates a valid task with an upload
>      When I go to the "Awesome Ruby Yahh" task list page of the "Ruby
> Rockstars" project
>      When I follow "+ Add Task"
>      And I fill in "Task title" with "Ohhh upload"
>      And I follow "Attachment"
>      When I attach the file "features/support/sample_files/dragon.jpg" to
> "upload_file"
>      And I press "Add Task"
>      And I wait for 1 second
>      And I should see "Ohhh upload" as a task name
>
> I was much more sceptical when I had only seen the example in Niklas’s
> message.
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