22 Nov
2005
22 Nov
'05
12:09 a.m.
Henning Thielemann wrote:
Hence, spacing being significant is not Haskell-specific
So Haskell is somehow BASICish -- how awful.
No, you got it backwards. I was contrasting a BASIC dialect as an example of a space-*in*sensitive language to just about every modern language, including Haskell. In other words, Haskell was specifically *not* like BASIC in my comparison. I believe early FORTRAN is another example of a spacing-*in*sensitive language comparable to that BASIC dialect, and *not* similar to Haskell. -- Antti-Juhani