Re: DDC compiler and effects; better than Haskell? (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] unsafeDestructiveAssign?)

bugfact:

Well, the point is that you still have monadic and pure programming styles. It's true that applicative style programming can help here, but then you have these <$> and <*> operators everywhere, which also feels like boilerplate code (as you mention, some extensions could help here)

Overloading whitespace as application in the Identity idiom! :) -- Do