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From: Brian McNamara!
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:29
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:29
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Moving it to git.cc.general, which is somewhat more appropriate... Also changed the Subject... sstrickl@angband.org (Zelgadis) once said: >Been playing around with ML and Haskell over the break... I like >the way that ML can deduct types from your statements, so that you >don't have to declare them implicitly, and can even use the type >deduction system as a way of detecting errors in one's programs... >but then, I also like the partial and infinite lists of Haskell, >does ML have anything like that? I don't think ML has "special syntax" like Haskell does for infinite lists and such, but I'm sure you can do it in ML. Heck, we do it in C++ in the FC++ library (which embeds much of the Haskell Standard Prelude in C++): http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~yannis/fc++/ I am gaining more appreciation for type-inference these days. I still like explicit typing as documentation in most places, but I now at least see the other side of the issue. -- Brian M. McNamara lorgon@acm.org : I am a parsing fool! ** Reduce - Reuse - Recycle ** : (Where's my medication? ;) )
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1135d7,bcf27c2d45505b26,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1135d7,public X-Google-Thread: fab93,bcf27c2d45505b26,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfab93,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-18 11:29:33 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!216.227.56.88.MISMATCH!telocity-west!TELOCITY!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!xfer13.netnews.com!netnews.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!GT-News!not-for-mail From: gt5163b@prism.gatech.edu (Brian McNamara!) Newsgroups: git.announce,git.cc.general Subject: Languages (was Re: Snow!) Followup-To: git.cc.general Date: 18 Dec 2000 19:29:32 GMT Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 25 Message-ID: <91lois$ci$1@news-int.gatech.edu> References: <3A3CA76C.622C@surfsouth.com> <91lmlf$str$1@news-int.gatech.edu> <91lngb$t5l$1@news-int.gatech.edu> <slrn93sonb.963.sstrickl@angband.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: gt5163b@acmez.gatech.edu X-Trace: news-int.gatech.edu 977167772 402 130.207.165.24 (18 Dec 2000 19:29:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gatech.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Dec 2000 19:29:32 GMT X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999)