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Article #301Re: Pattern matching considered harmful
From: Kevin Hammond
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 1990 21:41
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 1990 21:41
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In article <1554@sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway) writes: >In article <1990Jun07.020319.27609@comp.vuw.ac.nz> brian@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Brian Boutel) writes: >>Views were considered for inclusion in Haskell, but dropped when we >>found some awkward consequences that we did not want to deal with >>without first gaining more experience with their use. > >But if no-one implements views, where will such experience come from? I did implement Haskell views: the implementation showed that these were too experimental for Haskell1 (and not exactly what Phil intended in his paper). We may well have another attempt at views in a trial version before Haskell2 depending on the effort available (and what seems interesting). Kevin -- This Signature Intentionally Left Blank. E-mail: kh@cs.glasgow.ac.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!kh From: kh@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Kevin Hammond) Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: Pattern matching considered harmful Message-ID: <5456@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 12 Jun 90 21:41:43 GMT References: <1990Jun5.175706.415@newcastle.ac.uk> <2584@skye.ed.ac.uk> <3077@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <2790@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <RJC.90Jun4134659@brodie.uk.ac.ed.cstr> <1990Jun07.020319.27609@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1554@sys.uea.ac.uk> Reply-To: kh@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Kevin Hammond) Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland Lines: 20