On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Richard O'Keefe
- a somewhat bogus claim about how much of the library you need to know how to use it (of COURSE you need to know about integers in order to use an integer operation, what's so bad about that?) - the claim that + doesn't mean + (this is really an argument about the scope of + and could have been dealt with by ruling that n+k is only available when the version of + in scope is the one from the Prelude)
What's bogus about that claim? Then n+k patterns have type (Integral a) => a, so you need to know about type classes and Integral. Even if it's listed as a reason, you rest assure that the Haskell' committee did consider how widespread the use of n+k was before removing it. Of course, this can only be an educated guess. Of course, n+k will be missed by Haskell obfuscators. I mean, what will we do without (+) + 1 + 1 = (+) ? -- Lennart