Pronunciation: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:48, 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
`:`	cons
`[]`	nil
`()`	unit

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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 | <hask> : </hask>
 | cons
+|-
+| <hask> [] </hask>
+| nil
+|-
+| <hask> () </hask>
+| unit
 |}