Hello John, Tuesday, August 1, 2006, 6:27:29 AM, you wrote:
It is best to think of haskell primitives as something completely new, they reuse some naming conventions from OO programming, but that doesn't mean they suffer from the same limitations. It took me a few trys to wrap my brain around it. I liken learning haskell to tipping over a vending machine. you can't just push it, you gotta rock it back and forth a few times building up momentum until bam! suddenly the flash of insight hits and it all makes sense.
btw, http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/gpce06/ can help on this way. i think that there is also other papers that can help too but i also agree with Brian - there is some constraints in Haskell comparing to C++ and vice versa. while developing Streams library i was many times bitten by these restrictions -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com