I don't think that other languages failing should be an excuse for Haskell to be equally bad.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Miguel Mitrofanov <miguelim...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Well, the problem is that every implementor does choose a subset of standart > to implement. > > It's much worse in JavaScript - essential features working differently in > Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari, and sometimes they even > differ between versions; Web programmers still manage. (n+k)-patterns are > nothing compared to that. > > Lennart Augustsson wrote on 20.04.2009 15:17: >> >> If every implementor got to choose what subset of the standard to >> implement that all code would have have to written in the implemented >> intersection. I think that's a terrible idea. >> The Haskell98 standard was set so there would be a baseline that >> people could rely on. >> >> When I implemented Haskell (both times) there were odds and ends that >> I really hated (some of those feelings have changed), but I did it >> anyway. >> >> -- Lennart >> >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Bulat Ziganshin >> <bulat.zigans...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Jon, >>> >>> Monday, April 20, 2009, 1:59:07 PM, you wrote: >>> >>>> It's not an implementor's place to make such decisions -- >>>> they can legitimately say "this feature sucks" and tell the >>>> next Haskell committee so. If they care enough about it, >>>> they can lobby or get on that next committee, but the >>>> arguments for n+k patterns /in Haskell98/ were done long >>>> ago. >>> >>> if you really believe in that you said, you can spend your own time >>> adding its support :) i never seen n+k patterns in real code so i >>> understand developers that don't want to waste time just to compliant >>> standard even if their efforts will be never really used >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Bulat mailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >>> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
