Re:WASM_of_OCaml
by abecedarius on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:16PM
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Better yet, compare
versus
and picture the first style inside a more complex function with more constructors/conversions.
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Yes, even better example, thanks! In Haskell you get
f = floob_of_glork . glork_of_crumb . crumb_of_zing
which is much better than f = glork_to_floob . crumb_to_glork . zing_to_crumbInteresting. The pipe operator is more idiomatic in OCaml where this would be
crumb_of_zing x |> glork_of_crumb |> floob_of_glork
versus zing_to_crumb x |> crumb_to_glork |> glork_to_floob
Re:WASM_of_OCaml
by abecedarius on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:14AM
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Yeah, fair. Forth especially really commits to that left-to-right order in its general style -- I like it when a language and its culture are conscious about readability in this way.
It is interesting that the "of" style is common in Ocaml where the left-to-right style is common. They seem to clash!
I would like to know what it's like to work in a fully left-to-right language, for example, to define `my_floob`:
let my_crumb |> zing_to_crumb |> crumb_to_glork |> glork_to_floob = my_floob