On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Andrew Coppin
My only problem with it is that it's called Bool, while every other programming language on Earth calls it Boolean. (Or at least, the languages that *have* a name for it...)
Python: bool ocaml: bool C++: bool C99: bool C#: bool
But I'm far more perturbed by names like Eq, Ord, Num, Ix (??), and so on. The worst thing about C is the unecessary abbriviations; let's not copy them, eh?
They're short so they're quick to parse (for a human) and read. They're easy to type. If you have a constraint like (Eq a,Num a,Ord a,Show a,Ix a) you can see all five type classes at a single glance without having to scan your eye across the line. They're highly mnemonic in the sense that once I'd learnt what they meant it became hard to forget them again. What exactly is wrong with them? -- Dan