5 Feb
2006
5 Feb
'06
10:46 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 10:45:50AM -0500, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
I don't really see what's so much better about writing [x1,x2,x3,x4,x5] than x1:x2:x3:x4:x5:[]. When I've explained lists to beginners I've just found it annoying and hard to explain why there are two ways of writing lists. And why only lists have this special syntax.
-- Lennart
But if you remove the [...] syntax, there will be more :'s in people's code. You are working against yourself here ;-) Best regards Tomasz -- I am searching for programmers who are good at least in (Haskell || ML) && (Linux || FreeBSD || math) for work in Warsaw, Poland