19 Jul
2014
19 Jul
'14
5:35 p.m.
On 2014-07-18 23:11, Andreas Abel wrote:
I am not super excited about library functions like
comparing = (compare `on`) equating = ((==) `on`)
It is rather knowledge how to use 'on', a programming pattern.
I concur, but at the same time the argument given on this list by Robert Dockins' about seven years ago ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/5622 ) seems compelling, too. Incidentally, the mail is form the thread in which the term Fairbairn threshold was coined. - Frerich