[Haskell-cafe] Re: All equations must have the same arity - why?

Jonathan Cast wrote:

On 13 Jan 2008, at 4:15 PM, Achim Schneider wrote:

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"Neil Mitchell" wrote:

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i.e. lift the arities to the longest argument list.

Is there a reason this isn't done?

Most likely not, there are being made up right now.

I'm glad you are capable of ever so nobly assigning the purest imaginable motives to the designers of Haskell. You are an inspiration to us all.

Most likely not. I'm only assigning good taste. There might be some evil conspiracy about warping people's heads somewhere, after all. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.