Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf]
by tom_mellior on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @10:12AM
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So how exactly would you write the above five lines of OCaml in fewer than five lines in Idris?
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Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf]
by smaddox on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @03:02PM
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The verbosity is not in the function definition, its in the match expression needed at _every single call site_. In Idris, the definition would be similar length or longer, but call sites would not need a match expression.