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   by riwsky 12y ago

   Haskell's generic programming constructs do not have zero runtime overhead (at least on GHC, the dominant compiler). Typeclass-overloaded functions take an extra argument at runtime, in which the class "methods" are looked
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   by riwsky 12y ago

   And in case anyone else wants such a function, it's available in the standard library as functools.partial: https://docs.python.org/2/library/functools.html
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   by riwsky 12y ago

   These operators are like the word "whence": a denser notation that could just as easily be written out in full, in a way more friendly to non-experts in the language - for example, as "from where" - but if you're al
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   by riwsky 13y ago

   > you can create an object that implements the same interface and delegates to an instance of the base type (much less readable in every language I've seen, and effectively reimplementing inheritance without the syntactic sugar). In
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   by riwsky 13y ago

   For John Carmack's take on the matter, see: John Carmack: "Thoughts on Haskell" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6278047
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   by riwsky 13y ago

   PZ Myers, a biologist, gives a good reaction to some earlier news on these physicists at http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/04/26/aaargh-physici...
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   Show HN: Gatos, conCATenative functions for python(github.com)

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