On: Functional programming explained ... IRC-style

[tumult]

You think it's weird now, wait until you start building infinite lists or writing recursive functions with no terminating case as part of your everyday routine in Haskell :)

[mapleoin → tumult]

you can do that with python generators, too. These don't seem like the most eccentric Haskell features to me.

[tumult → mapleoin]

Don't generators have to yield in order to return data?

And I never claimed these were eccentric features.

[tel → mapleoin]

Take a look at Parsec sometime.

Sure, you can do parsers in any language, but the monadic/combinator structure is a little bit eccentric and a lot amazing.

[Sapient → tumult]

Heh, one step at a time... Those sound like they can produce headaches.