From: "Arne Koewing" <Arne.Koewing@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
To: OCaml List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Okasaki's $-Notation
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:44:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fys93u13.fsf@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509130913530.1312@localhost.localdomain> (Brian Hurt's message of "Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:15:52 -0500 (CDT)")
Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org> writes:
>
> B) One of the reasons I don't like Okasaki's $ notation is that it
> represents both suspending the computation and forcing the computation. I
> often times have trouble figuring out which meaning is meant with any
> given use. Which I'm wondering might not be your problem- if I have a
> hard time figuring it out, how hard is it going to be for the computer to
> figure it out?
Well, that's true.
I like that his suspending operation does not need parenthesis, but
that's no major advantage over ocaml's "lazy".
But support for pattern-matching of lazy values seems to be valuable...
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2005-09-13 14:10 Arne Koewing
2005-09-13 14:15 ` [Caml-list] " Brian Hurt
2005-09-13 14:44 ` Arne Koewing [this message]
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