2011/5/28 Alex Kropivny <alex.kropi...@gmail.com>: > Erlang has the advantage of functions being the basic, composeable building > block. Packages and modules are merely means to organize them, and mediocre > means at that, so a better system is definitely a possibility. Haskell has > the complication of having type definitions in addition to functions.
Those "complicating" type definitions is *the* metadata Joe talking about. Or, at least, most valuable part of metadata, with package name (defines the author) and module path (defines high-level intent and less relevant parts of metadata). _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
