On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Miguel Mitrofanov
On 21 Apr 2009, at 04:59, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
On 20 Apr 2009, at 10:12 pm, Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:
I disagree. First of all, UHC states explicitly that some features are not supported (and probably never would be). Secondly, it seems like almost nobody uses (n+k)-patterns,
How can you possibly know that?
I can't; that's why I've said "seems like".
Plus, there was a movement to ban them: http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell@haskell.org/msg01261.html All jesting aside, after I read article I was even less eager to use them, and I never thought to use them in a real program anyway. BUT, here is the real point of my reply: To end this debate as to whether people really use them. We have this huge collection of source code called Hackage. I bet that if someone with haskell-src-ext experience sat down they could go through all of package in an automated way and count the number of uses of n+k patterns in source code that appears in the wild. Jason