I sent a private email and the response to it has appeared on this mailing-list, so let me just correct some of the interpretations that have been made.

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You can say that again!

Ah..sarcasm, I know that one.

No, it was emphatic agreement (the ordinary usage of that phrase).

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Is a persecution complex required for Haskell programming :-)

This one is sarcasm. Hi Sebastian :-)

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I'm waiting for the complaints that binary-trees was designed to favour functional programming languages ;-)

;-) == sarcasm

Actually no - binary-trees was written with functional programming languages very much in mind. best wishes, Isaac __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com