[Nix-dev] Re: python proposal

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hey,

Armijn Hemel <armijn at uulug.nl> writes:

> If it were up to me, I'd rather go for simpler expressions, instead of
> more abstractions I don't understand. These abstractions make it just
> too much of an effort to keep up with.

+1.

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>
writes:

> I also have a hard time understanding a lot of this stuff.  This may have
> something to do with the coding style, in particular the names of some
> identifiers: for instance, a name like "composedArgsAndFun" doesn't tell me a
> lot about what that function is supposed to do, yet I see it everywhere.  And
> this new name "applyAndFun" isn't even grammatical.

I couldn't agree more.

Thanks,
Ludo'.