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Re:Hyperpolyglot by Lemmih on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @10:49AM (#13271207)
Quite a few errors for Haskell. 'n <- return 3' is NOT a way to create a mutable reference. Silly things like that are scattered all around.
Re:Hyperpolyglot by junke on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @11:18AM (#13271468)
I agree. The Lisp dialect page for example, has:

- inaccuracies (e.g. word separator in CL depends on current readtable), which is understandable given the very terse format

- missing cases (e.g. no compiler for CL?)

- and factually wrong elements (identifiers are case sensitive, but upcased while reading by default; they can starting with numbers, like 1+, etc.).

Fortunately there is a way to fix that: https://github.com/clarkgrubb/hyperpolyglot/issues

Re:Hyperpolyglot by catnaroek on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @11:17AM (#13271460)
Nor is it a way to achieve anything useful. Might as well just write β€œlet n = 3”. :-p