Re: [Haskell-cafe] Comma in the front

On 2006-07-13 at 09:35EDT mark@ixod.org (Mark T.B. Carroll) wrote:

Jon Fairbairn writes:

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a:: b:: c:.

but when I suggested this at a Haskell meeting, Simon PJ complained that it "looks like hopscotch". I've never quite understood that complaint!

http://blogs.salon.com/0002296/myimages/hopscotch.jpg and http://www.northshield.org/officers/seneschal/moy/games/hopscotch.gif suggest to me that the pattern of : and . going up in a row is a bit like the squares along the linear 'course' (or list (-:) where sometimes you get one and sometimes two.

Well, perhaps (the pattern I associate with hopscotch is the first, ie ·:·:·:·, which could never happen since :. is the end of the list), but that still leaves open the question "What's bad about that?" :-) Jón -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk