principle of least surprise

Ulf Wiger (AL/EAB) ulf.wiger@REDACTED
Tue Nov 22 11:50:34 CET 2005


Nick Linker wrote:
> 
> Ulf Wiger (AL/EAB) wrote:
> 
> >In "Wearing the hair shirt" 2003(*), Simon Peyton-Jones claimed that 
> >the only thing wrong with monads was the name: they should 
> have called 
> >them "warm fuzzy things".
> >  
> >
> Very interesting, thank you ;-)
> 
> >Erlang WFTs, in other words, would be the thing to allow in 
> guards.  (:
> >
> I'm sorry, what is 'WFTs'?

WFTs = Warm Fuzzy Things.

/Uffe



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