Pronunciation: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:39, 8 January 2008

Some notes for beginners on how to pronounce those strange Haskell operators etc.

This is just a rough start to this page. Obviously needs more work.

This can be a table with formal and informal ways of saying various operators and code snippets such as

Symbol	Pronounciation
`->`	maps to, to
`-<`
`=`	is
`==`	equals
`=>`	is a witness for, implies
`.`	dot (could be used anywhere, but especially in, for example, Data.Char.ord), ring, compose (for example, negate . (+1)), (silent) (for example, forall a. (Num a) => a)
`<-`	drawn from, from
`++`	append
`>>=`	bind
`>>`	then
`\`	lambda

Example	Pronounciation
`f :: Int -> Int`	f has type Int to Int

should we add informal, possibly bad suggestions like "then", "is", "gets"?

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 This can be a table with formal and informal ways of saying various operators and code snippets such as
-<hask> -> </hask> maps to,  to
+{|
+! Symbol
+! Pronounciation
+|-
+| <hask> -> </hask>
+| maps to,  to
+|-
+| <hask> -< </hask>
+|
+|-
+| <hask> = </hask>
+| is
+|-
+| <hask> == </hask>
+| equals
+|-
+| <hask> => </hask>
+| is a witness for, implies
+|-
+| <hask> . </hask>
+| dot (could be used anywhere, but especially in, for example, Data.Char.ord),  ring, compose (for example, negate . (+1)), (silent) (for example, forall a. (Num a) => a)
+|-
+| <hask> <- </hask>
+| drawn from,  from
+|-
+| <hask> ++ </hask>
+| append
+|-
+| <hask> >>= </hask>
+| bind
+|-
+| <hask> >> </hask>
+| then
+|-
+| <hask> \ </hask>
+| lambda
+|}
-<hask> -< </hask>
+{|
+! Example
-<hask> = </hask> equals
+! Pronounciation
+|-
-<hask> => </hask> is a witness for, implies
+| <hask>f :: Int -> Int</hask>
+| f has type Int to Int
-<hask> . </hask> dot (could be used anywhere, but especially in, for example, Data.Char.ord),  ring, compose (for example, negate . (+1)), (silent) (for example, forall a. (Num a) => a)
+|}
-<hask> <- </hask> drawn from,  from
-<hask> ++ </hask> append
-<hask> +++ </hask>
-<hask> >>= </hask> bind
-<hask> >> </hask>
-<hask>f :: Int -> Int</hask> f has type Int to Int
-<hask> \ </hask> lambda
 should we add informal, possibly bad suggestions like "then", "is", "gets"?