What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

Re:What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell by evincarofautumn on Sunday September 13, 2015 @08:23AM (#10211130)

Conventions are as important as syntax when it comes to legibility of a language, so phrasing “M” as “Action” seemed a fair comparison. And if you want to be true to the semantics, you might write something like this:

    def M2 ((A1 => A2 => R) => M<A1> => M<A2> => M<R>) where Monad<M>

At which point the Haskell syntax is shorter. However, concision is not the goal—it’s merely a proxy for clarity.

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Re:What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell by masklinn on Monday September 14, 2015 @07:53AM (#10214644)

> Conventions are as important as syntax when it comes to legibility of a language, so phrasing “M” as “Action” seemed a fair comparison.

But the conventions are whatever we want for a resyntacting no?

> However, concision is not the goal

I was answering a comment putting concision forward as reasons to dislike the alternate syntax.

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