30 May
2008
30 May
'08
4:23 a.m.
On 30 May 2008, at 12:29 AM, Galchin, Vasili wrote:
compactness in writing and also namespace pollution .. ;^)
I know what the advantages of C's notation are. But getting the best notation out of Haskell generally doesn't happen by trying to make your code look like C. So the general answer to questions of the form `C can do x; can Haskell' is `No'. Don't do it like in C. It won't be idiomatic, it won't be elegant, and neither of us will like the results. Understand the features of Haskell that make your program compact, point-free (how Haskell handles namespace pollution), and elegant and use those. This will require a different factoring of your program vs. C. Sorry, but that's life. jcc