
2 Oct
2003
2 Oct
'03
10:57 a.m.
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
I appreciate the prefer-users'-ease-over-compiler-writers' idea. For example, syntactic sugar can be a great thing. But I think there's a point where it becomes too much. Haskell has arguably passed that point.
Sorry, this was ambiguous; when I say "where it becomes too much", the "it" refers *not* to syntactic sugar, but to the idea of preferring users to compiler writers. N