Am So., 18. Aug. 2019 um 17:17 Uhr schrieb Oliver Charles < ollie@ocharles.org.uk>:
On Sun, 18 Aug 2019, 5:47 pm Helmut Schmidt, < helmut.schmidt.4711@gmail.com> wrote:
All these philosophical arguments calling for "consistency" with the container APIs or that function need words for the human mind to comprehend seem short-sighted to me. If we were consistent about the proposal itself we'd also demand to add
cons = (:)
empty = []
toList = id
fromList = id
I honestly have no problem with any of these.
I forgot append = (++) We also need to address another elephant in the room... those pesky tuples and their special privileged non-wordy syntax! pair = (,) triple = (,,) quadruple = (,,,) quituple = (,,,,) sextuple = (,,,,,) septuble = (,,,,,,) octuple = (,,,,,,,) If Haskell were invented in this century's EU Haskell source code would be littered with €s instead of $s but then again I wonder why £ wasn't picked. But I digress. We can kill two birds with one stone here: apply = ($) strictApply = ($!) compose = (.) It's fun to imagine how code using those definitions would like! But it's still a -1 for me, sorry!