Re: Teaching

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Ashley Yakeley wrote:

That something might confuse the beginning user should count for nothing if it does not annoy the more experienced user.

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. -- flippa@flippac.org "The reason for this is simple yet profound. Equations of the form x = x are completely useless. All interesting equations are of the form x = y." -- John C. Baez