Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I could repeat myself and once again mention that Haskell allows a 
> numeric literal to represent any possible number type,

Yeah. Lots of languages do that.  Just not C#.


Altho I was amused when I tried a header like

   public void xyz(float a, float b, float c = 0.25) { ... }

and the error message pointed at the = and said "default values not allowed."

Not just "syntax error" or ") expected" or something, but a special case for 
the syntax error being an "=" followed by a literal.

> More irritating still is the fact that Haskell has a special notation 
> for writing lists, but it only works for lists. If you want to 
> initialise an array, you have to write the initialiser as a list; how 
> dumb is that?

It's hard to do a good job without the equivalent of read macros.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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