30 Nov
2006
30 Nov
'06
6:52 p.m.
Hello,
On 11/30/06, Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Iavor, how about using Haskell for scripting? i find it as great alternative to perl/ruby, particularly because i don't want to remember two languages, particularly because of great data processing instruments
I am speculating, but I suspect that the uses of defaulting in a Haskell program (e.g. a script) are a lot fewer than when one uses Hugs as a calculator. In addition, as people already mentioned, ambiguities can be resolved with type signatures.We already have to do this anyway when defaulting does not apply (e.g., if any user defined classes are involved). -Iavor