Re: Teaching

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Iavor Diatchki wrote:

Hello,

On 11/30/06, Philippa Cowderoy wrote:

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This experienced user regularly uses a haskell interpreter for a desk calculator, not to mention for producing readable budgets that show all the working. Removing defaulting would make that extremely tedious.

I do what you suggest all the time (I mean using Hugs as a calculator) and I agree that it would be annoying without some sort of defaulting. However, I am not sure that this particular use justifies the addition of defaulting to the _language_. For example, it is possible that defaulting is implemented as a switch to the command-line interpreter.

The more generalised Haskell-as-spreadsheet-replacement might, as that creates source files. -- flippa@flippac.org Performance anxiety leads to premature optimisation