17 May
2007
17 May
'07
8:03 p.m.
On 5/17/07, Joseph H. Fasel
*Sigh* The problems with unary minus were discussed in the dim mists of time before we published the first Haskell report. We considered then using a separate symbol for unary negation (as does APL, for example), but (IIRC) this was regarded as unfriendly to Fortran programmers.
[breaking cc list]
Would this kind of thing be eligible for Haskell'? I never had a
problem with _1 in APL-type languages... and I think it's best to be
very clear about intent.
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