[Haskell-cafe] Re: (A little humour)

Achim Schneider wrote:

Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:

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I think you might be interested in http://www.research.att.com/~bs/whitespace98.pdf

"Instead, it was decided to by default limit identifiers to a single character"

The Wisdom of it! Preparing C++ programmers for Haskell's limitation!

(In the category haha-only-serious, make does nearly exactly what the paper suggests: $f = bar $foo -> baroo $(foo) -> bar I never noticed its genius until I tried out omake, where a bit of hacking gives you enough opportunities to use one-character variables/functions in narrow scopes) -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.