On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:30:47 -0500, Erik Jones wrote: > On Aug 28, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Chris Mellon wrote: >> When working with lists, Python has a slice syntax (which is rather >> more powerful than Haskells limited head->tail linked list syntax) that >> you can use to chop a sequence up into various parts. > > That is extremely arguable (in fact, Haskell's list semantics are > extremely powerful as they are not limited to just head/tail).
Apples and oranges, really. Pattern matching can do an awful lot of cool things, but arbitrary slicing isn't one of the more pleasant ones. (At least not without a good set of slice-matching patterns handy, which I don't know if Haskell has.) Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
