22 Nov
2005
22 Nov
'05
2:11 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:09:33AM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
Henning Thielemann wrote:
Hence, spacing being significant is not Haskell-specific
So Haskell is somehow BASICish -- how awful.
No, you got it backwards. I was contrasting a BASIC dialect as an example of a space-*in*sensitive language to just about every modern language, including Haskell. In other words, Haskell was specifically *not* like BASIC in my comparison.
I believe early FORTRAN is another example of a spacing-*in*sensitive language comparable to that BASIC dialect, and *not* similar to Haskell.
Aren't C and C++ space insensitive (except the preprocessor)? Best regards Tomasz