
29 Nov
2007
29 Nov
'07
1:50 p.m.
Dan Weston wrote:
[...] and facilitates "borrow-from-the-future" techniques where useful with infinite data structures or recursive algorithms.
And this, gentlemen, is just one of the reasons why Haskell gets labelled as "scary". It's very hard to explain what this enigmatic riddle-like statement actually *means* without a very long exposition. (Heck, *I* haven't worked out how to "borrow from the future" yet...) [The other reason, of course, is that Haskell's syntax isn't C / C++ / Java / VB... which suits me just fine! ;-) ]