From: Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr>
To: John.Harrison@cl.cam.ac.uk (John Harrison)
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Functional composition operator?
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:57:48 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812111357.OAA32023@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E0znnEp-00050H-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk> from "John Harrison" at Dec 9, 98 05:17:22 pm
[...]
> I wasn't necessarily proposing such a ragbag. But as Don Syme has pointed
> out, there are many perfectly natural and disciplined ways of using side
> effects within globally functional code.
I think we agree on the whole thing in fact: the problem is to get
the most readable and clearest program we can write.
> [...] I'm happy for
> people to avoid composition if that's what they want. However I don't like
> the idea of discouraging new programmers from using it even when it
> could be very helpful and natural.
You're absolutely right. The more natural the better.
Pierre Weis
INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-11 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-08 5:23 John Whitley
1998-12-08 17:02 ` Pierre Weis
1998-12-08 21:52 ` John Harrison
1998-12-09 10:58 ` Pierre Weis
1998-12-09 17:17 ` John Harrison
1998-12-11 13:57 ` Pierre Weis [this message]
1998-12-08 18:08 Andrew Kay
1998-12-08 20:32 ` John Prevost
1998-12-09 16:17 ` Anton Moscal
1998-12-08 19:51 Don Syme
1998-12-08 20:09 Don Syme
1998-12-09 12:00 Don Syme
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