[Haskell-cafe] Haskell's "historical futurism" needs better writing, not better tools

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Fri Oct 1 07:53:49 UTC 2021


On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 08:27:15PM +1300, Anthony Clayden wrote:
>> > Switching subtopics to the "Chirality" section, ...
>> 
>> I take Ben's point (with which I agree) to be that "Chirality" is an even
>> more obscure word than "Endomorphism". (Except perhaps in the realm of
>> subatomic particle physics.)
>
> The word occurred only in the section title, which will now (MR 6555) read:
>
>    Expectation of efficient left-to-right iteration


It seems that the thread has shifted from "historical futurism" to 
"documentation of Foldable".


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