On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:49 PM, wren ng thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We inherited our use of spaces for function application from Lisp and > friends, so "foo bar baz" looks perfectly natural to functionalists. But to > those used to seeing "foo(bar, baz)" the meaning attached to the spaces is > alien.
I have to admit, it took me a long time to be able to parse the ML-style function notation in Haskell. I found it the biggest "barrier to entry". I suspect that most of the complaints about line noise stem from this - to beginners Haskell expressions just look like sequences of identifiers with no apparent grammar to "bind" them together. -- Dan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
