Re: Thinking about port set expressions and block expressions

Alex Miłowski <alex@milowski.com> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
>>
>>   [source="doc.xml", "style.xsl"] -> xslt()
>>
>> (I kind of like the arrow for readability but I think Henry's right,
>> it has no purpose except readability.)
>>
>
> I think that is like saying:
>
> 1 + 2 + -3
>
> is the same as
>
> 1 2 -3
>
> because the + operator is just there for readability.

I think that’s a tiny bit of a stretch, but I agree that:

> We may find we want other operators in the future.

And, for the record, I’m strongly in favor of retaining the → operator.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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