25 Aug
2013
25 Aug
'13
10:49 p.m.
These users tend to be the users who are most vulnerable from the standpoint of not knowing what is happening to them. They just see that Haskell "doesn't work" and go back to Ruby.
(Laughing Out Loud) It is not just me then. Really I would consider taking a page out of the Ruby pragmatic playbook and recognise the importance of both monomorphic strings and overloaded strings and provide a separate syntax for either overloaded strings or good ole lists of Unicode points (to which I have an irrational sentimental attachment). Otherwise my vote is vote for the balance of the less surprises and less generality of Edward's proposal (+1). Chris