-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 February 2002 03:35, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
At 2002-02-19 09:56, Richard Uhtenwoldt wrote:
This is reflection! I'd rather not have Haskell contaminated with such things;
Can you say a little more about why you think reflection is bad? Does it make the language implementation run slower?
It's ugly, and isn't part of the spirit of the language.
The above statement cannot be a basis for any argument against Bernard's
proposal. Where Bernard makes a careful analysis of the matter, you introduce
your prejudice.
Since you are defining the spirit of the language, perhaps you could make a
list of the "parts" of that spirit so that people will not come up with any
proposal that violates your understanding of aesthetics.
A general concept such as reflection cannot be deemed as worthless in itself.
Any system that has a tiny bit of introspective powers can be said to be
reflective to some extent, for instance a Haskell interpreter.
Thanks,
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Eray Ozkural (exa)