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Could you give an example of this? I don't quite follow what you mean by "symbolic syntax". Do you mean infix functions like >>= and <$>?

• shakna 10y ago
  Syntax where symbols are used in leiu of words. For example, I have no clue what >>= and <$> mean from a glance. I have to look it up to get Monad and Functor. Why not use the word?
  • moomin 10y ago
    Well, because it's pretty obvious after you've spent a week with Haskell. With that said, one thing the Haskell creators seem to regret is not requiring every operator to also have a name. (In the case of <$> it does: fmap)
  • runeks 10y ago
    As far as I can see, if you already know what fmap does and what infix notation is, you'll know what <$> is after looking it up just once. And if you know what a monad is, you'll also know what >>= does. And if you know neither of these things, then I'm fairly sure writing `fmap` and `bind` wouldn't help much anyway.