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prollyignored on June 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was St...

Attention to syntax is what ruby is good at.

Scala, Haskell treat syntax as a chore.

dons on June 13, 2013 | [–]

You don't know Haskell.

> take 8 $ cycle [1,2,3]

pja on June 13, 2013 | | [–]

  cycleM x = x `mplus` (cycleM x)

  take 8 $ cycleM [1,2,3]

might be more generic?

lucian1900 on June 13, 2013 | [–]

Scala maybe, not Haskell (which barely has any syntax).

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