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Haskell, despite how people talk about it, isn't necessarily that heavy symbol-wise. Table-based aligning makes haskell code look very good (esp. when dealing w
by rtpg 12y ago
Haskell, despite how people talk about it, isn't necessarily that heavy symbol-wise. Table-based aligning makes haskell code look very good (esp. when dealing with a lot of pattern matching)
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoHaskell just looks horrible when set in ASCII at all; where did they come up with \ for lambda? It would definitely benefit aesthetically from at least more Greek use.
- Someone 12y agoIt's two thirds of a lowercase lambda: λ vs \
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoI know, but it's too subtle and makes the code look bizarre. Well, if there were lambdas everywhere, I'm not sure it would look much better...code would begin to feel more like a boring POPL paper.