What Is Good About Haskell?

Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by HorstG on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:51AM (#21145554)

Calling it Box is confusing. unique_ptr would be an improvement for the name, or maybe HeapRef. The problem is exactly that rust chose a misleading name Box (boxed types are something entirely different in most languages) instead of the obvious C(++)/Java-like _ptr, ref, * or & notation/convention

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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by nicoburns on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:16AM (#21146561)

Boxed types in Java are basically the same thing: a heap allocated version of an otherwise stack-allocated type.

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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by SamReidHughes on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:37PM (#21152999)

I thought the name was pretty clear; when I saw it in some list of different kinds of Rust pointers, I knew what it was immediately.

It doesn't matter if some people are confused, because you can just explain what it is in 3 seconds. What's important for such a ubiquitous type is that the name is short.

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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by axelf4 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @11:24AM (#21148068)

> instead of the obvious C(++)/Java-like _ptr, ref, * or & notation/convention

That would be very misleading since Box represents a heap-allocated owned value

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