30 Oct
2012
30 Oct
'12
2:44 a.m.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Rustom Mody
In particular, there is one small notational point that he insisted on towards the end of his career (and life) viz. where traditional mathematicians write *f(x) *and functional programmers write *f x*, he would write *f.x* , ie he showed apply with a '.'
In trying to understand his intentions, I wrote the following 'thought-dialogue' [as in thought-experiment :-) ] http://www.the-magus.in/Publications/ewd.pdf
I didn't read all of it, but near the end when "EWD" made the point about how function application should be a first-class operator and not mere whitespace, "Haskeller" missed a golden opportunity to segue into applicative functors. -- Kim-Ee