Difference between revisions of "Pronunciation"

Revision as of 20:58, 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
`/=`	not-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>
 | maps to,  to
-|-
-| <hask> -< </hask>
-|
 |-
 | <hask> = </hask>
@@ Line 20: / Line 17: @@
 | <hask> == </hask>
 | equals
+|-
+| <hask> /= </hask>
+| not-equals
 |-
 | <hask> => </hask>
@@ Line 29: / Line 29: @@
 | <hask> <- </hask>
 | drawn from,  from
+|-
+| <hask> -< </hask>
+|
 |-
 | <hask> ++ </hask>