Re: [Haskell-cafe] Comma in the front

Jon Fairbairn writes:

a:: b:: c:.

but when I suggested this at a Haskell meeting, Simon PJ complained that it "looks like hopscotch". I've never quite understood that complaint!

http://blogs.salon.com/0002296/myimages/hopscotch.jpg and http://www.northshield.org/officers/seneschal/moy/games/hopscotch.gif suggest to me that the pattern of : and . going up in a row is a bit like the squares along the linear 'course' (or list (-:) where sometimes you get one and sometimes two. -- Mark