On 08-Oct-2004, Andre Pang
I believe that Marcin wishes to prove the same point that I want to: namely, Clean encourages use of strictness by making it easier to use (via language annotations). At the risk of sounding ignorant and arrogant, I think the Haskell community in general does not understand the importance of syntactic sugar to make such tasks easier.
I think the Haskell community understands well the importance of syntactic sugar; witness the use of syntactic sugar for monads, the `infix` operator syntax, the layout rules, etc. I think the Haskell community has just been a bit slower in understanding the importance of strictness :) But that seems to be gradually changing. -- Fergus J. Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit Galois Connections, Inc. | of excellence is a lethal habit" Phone: +1 503 626 6616 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.