
13 Sep
2007
13 Sep
'07
6:13 p.m.
Jules Bean wrote:
I'm not delighted with the idea of replacing our concise elegant standard library names with uglyAndRatherLongCamelCaseNamesThatCouldBePerlOrEvenJava though. Conciseness of expression is a virtue.
I, on the other hand, I'm not delighted with names such as "Eq" and "Ord". (Would it be *so* hard to write "Equal" and "Ordered"?) This is one of the main things I'd have done differently if I'd designed Haskell... not that anybody is too bothered. ;-)