Quoth Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 10:00 -0700, Donn Cave wrote:
So I thought it would be interesting to explore statements like "you must not do this", and "pure Haskell is not allowed to be non-deterministic", in terms of practical effects. No one would make a statement like that and not hope to be challenged on it?
What? Challenged by people who think Haskell should not be a purely functional language? I mean, that's kind of what it is. Again, if you don't want to use a purely functional language, there are *lots* of impure languages out there. There's no need to turn Haskell into one of them.
OK. You may note that I didn't actually pose any questions to you until engaged directly, having already surmised that answers were not forthcoming. But for the record, I should note that I haven't proposed any changes to Haskell, recently or that I recall even in the distant past except for one idea I had about pattern matching in a lambda expression. Donn