Teaching

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Ashley Yakeley wrote:

> That something might confuse the beginning user should count for nothing if it
> does not annoy the more experienced user.
> 

This experienced user regularly uses a haskell interpreter for a desk 
calculator, not to mention for producing readable budgets that show all 
the working. Removing defaulting would make that extremely tedious.

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