[Haskell-cafe] New type of ($) operator in GHC 8.0 is problematic

Miguel Mitrofanov miguelimo38 at yandex.ru
Wed Feb 10 14:26:26 UTC 2016


One thing that I truly HATE about Scala API reference is that they show you the "simple" (meaning: fake) type, and you have to click to see the real type. It makes going through docs so much slower.

10.02.2016, 17:01, "Raphael Gaschignard" <r.gaschignard at gmail.com>:
> I think the "show a simple type, then the 'real' type " solution is pretty good ( especially since you need to be doing type level programming to hit issues where the simple type doesn't hold anyways) , but on the topic of several languages: doesn't  Haskell98 kind of solve the teaching issue? If you're using the standard stuff stick to the old $...
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> I know Racket does some "language swapping" so that a beginner language is available . I don't know how well that works
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