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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: operation can be dispatching in only one type
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 22:20:41 +0100
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Date: 2015-11-26T22:20:41+01:00
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Le 26/11/2015 19:27, Serge Robyns a écrit :
> Isn't the purpose of higher programming languages not to save
> keystrokes, simplifying abstractions, enabling more powerful
> algorithms to be expressed directly?
Sure, but here the proposal is to offer the same functionality, with a
different syntax. It may be more pleasant, but it's not higher level.
That's what is called syntactic sugar. (Sugar is pleasant, isn't it? But
not in my coffee, no thanks ;-) )

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