Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: New syntax for Haskell

That was done around 100 years ago with COBOL. 2013/9/10 Vo Minh Thu

The syntax is actually used by non-technical people to write tests. Using it to write Haskell code is a joke. (Using it for business specification is not, even if for technical people this seems overkill.)

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2013/9/10 Ian Ross :

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Me too, but I wasn't brave enough to say so after people seemed to be taking it seriously...

On 10 September 2013 13:33, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

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* John Wiegley [2013-09-10 04:48:36-0500]

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>>> Niklas Hambüchen writes:

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Code written in cucumber syntax is concise and easy to read

concise |kənˈsīs|, adj.

giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive.

Compare:

Scenario: Defining the function foldl Given I want do define foldl Which has the type (in brackets) a to b to a (end of brackets), to a, to list of b, to a And my arguments are called f, acc, and l When l is empty Then the result better be acc Otherwise l is x cons xs Then the result should be foldl f (in brackets) f acc x (end of brackets) xs

To:

foldl :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a foldl f z [] = z foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs

How is that more concise or preferable?

I thought it was a joke.

Roman

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