Well, for those who use emacs, you could always make it *look* like it was
pretty... For example:
(eval-after-load 'clojure-mode
'(font-lock-add-keywords
'clojure-mode `(("\\<fn\\>"
(0 (progn (compose-region
(match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
,(make-char 'greek-iso8859-7 107)) ;; a lambda
nil)))
("\\<comp\\>"
(0
(progn (compose-region
(match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
"∘ ")
nil)))
("\\<partial\\>"
(0
(progn (compose-region
(match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
"𝒫 ")))))))
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Cyrus Harmon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think the minimal character count for composition and partial functions
> in haskell are some of the reasons that haskell code is so impenetrable to
> non-haskell hackers. Feel free to rig up crazy unicode characters to any
> identifier you want in your own code, just don't ask me to read or debug any
> of it.
>
> On Nov 15, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Paul Hobbs wrote:
>
> Coming from Haskell, where composition and partial functions are cheap and
> free in terms of character count, it is actually pretty discouraging to have
> to spell it out in Clojure for the same effect. Some of the cases where you
> "should" be using multiple expressions in Clojure would be perfectly clear
> in Haskell as one expression...
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Sean Corfield <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > The one that bugs me is complement - such a long name for a commonly-
>> > useful function. I often wind up defining ! as an alias for
>> > complement, but maybe others will think that is poor style.
>>
>> Possibly because bang functions indicate "Here be dragons" in terms of
>> mutating state? e.g., set!
>>
>> Are you really using complement a lot? I guess I would define an alias
>> for the complement-ed function or use not in expressions...
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