[TUHS] [Haskell-cafe] Terminator syntax style (Was: Nested (=>) (Was: On finding the right exposition...))
William Cheswick
ches at cheswick.com
Thu Oct 7 23:54:28 AEST 2021
Doug, if you insist on applying your superb editing skills on wiki material, we will never hear from you again!
> On Oct 7, 2021, at 9:50 AM, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> Apropos of "finding the right exposition"!, consider the cited wiki article:
>
> Separator: There is a symbol between each element.
>
> The more carefully you read this the more it becomes nonsense.
>
> 1, "Each element" is an individual. You can't put something between an
> individual.
>
> 2 The defining sentence states a property of a representation of a
> sequence. It fails to indicate that "separator" is the symbol's role.
>
> In fact what's being defined is "separator notation", not the bare
> word "separator". This usage appears only later in the article. It
> should be employed throughout--most importantly in the title and the
> definition. The same goes for "terminator".
>
> Doug
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