On 20-Sep-08 20:31, Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>    case compare number target of
> 
>   I think this line illustrates well what I wrote earlier. Just a list
> of whitespace-sepaated words. No delimiters, no hints about what might be
> a reserved keyword, what might be a variable, what might be a function.
> 
why would want you distinguish reserved words, variables and functions?
In C(++) they might be implemented quite differently, that does not mean 
however that are fundamentally different on a conceptual level. Haskell 
apparently does not make such arbitrary and implementation driven 
distinctions. I think we can only applaud that.

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