Re: Functional programming in Python

From: Ketil Malde "Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" writes:

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You want to be able to write

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f 1 2 + g 3 4

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instead of

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(f 1 2) + (g 3 4)

I do? Personally, I find it a bit confusing, and I still often get it wrong on the first attempt.

Same here. A while back someone said something along the lines that people come to Haskell because of the syntax. For me it is the other way around. My background is in Scheme/Lisp, and I still find it irritating that I cannot just say indent-sexp and the like in Emacs. It is the other properties of the language that keep me using it. I also get irritated when I get precedence wrong, so in fact I tend to write (f 1 2) + (g 2 3), which to my eye conveys the intended structure much better and compiles at first try. -- pertti