On Friday 18 November 2005 02:59, you wrote:
On Nov 17, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
... Yes, yes, yes. I'd rather use a different operator for record selection. For instance the colon (:). Yes, I know it is the 'cons' operator for a certain concrete data type that implements stacks (so called 'lists'). However I am generally opposed to wasting good operator and function names as well as syntactic sugar of any kind on a /concrete/ data type, and especially not for stacks aka lists.
Would you be happier if it were the "yield" operator for iterators?
Yours lazily,
Ok, ok, I tend to forget that Haskell lists are lazy streams, not just simple stacks... which makes them indeed a /lot/ more useful than the corresponding data type in strict languages. I still think all those nice short and meaningful names in the Prelude (map, filter, ...) should be type class members in some suitable standard collection library. Ben