13 Aug
2019
13 Aug
'19
4:49 a.m.
Tikhon Jelvis
Idioms like (:[]) are not intuitive at all.
Can you explain that? Once one knows that all infix operators can be used in sections (+1), (++"foo"), etc, that notation should be obvious, both in reading and writing. It’s much better to use ideas that are uniformly usable throughout the language and can be learned once than to have to learn numerous specific words. I’m -1 on the proposal, obviously. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk