Talk:Monad (functional programming): Difference between revisions

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:::Personally, i've been using C, Java, and Javascript for at least a couple of years (with <code>//</code> comments wherever possible; i'm not fond of <code>/**/</code>), but the example still doesn't cause me any discomfort. Besides, even if you limit the symbols to comments, what about Forth (and Forth-like) programmers, who use parentheses for comments (like in English)? The curly brace programming languages are very important and influential, but they're not special enough to start imposing their syntactical meaning on innocent bystanders.

:::Besides all that, i want to note that <code>//</code> already has an established meaning of "modified/alternate division" in several languages (including Python): something that thousands of people can recognize immediately. This alone should make it an obvious winner over inventions as strange-lookingnovel as <code>///</code> and <code>./.</code>. --[[User:Piet Delport|Piet Delport]] 19:51, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

:I know what you mean, I've had the same problem with people using <code>#</code> or <code>##</code> as an operator, while in Python, shell etc. they are used to start comments. As this page isn't strictly about Haskell, if we want to use Haskell as an example, we could still try to remove unnecessary readability problems from the article. --[[User:TuukkaH|TuukkaH]] 05:50, 10 January 2006 (UTC)