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mercurial on Jan 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Use Haskell for shell scripting

Yes, that's exactly what I wouldn't want to type. Also, your record is going to blow up in the likely case another utility uses a recursive flag, because of Haskell's pervasive namespacing problems.

tel on Jan 30, 2015 [–]

It probably wouldn't be too hard to do something like

    grep "foo"
      & "recursive" <~ True
      & "maxCount"  <~ 100

in a typesafe way. It just probably wouldn't be worth the complexity. It also probably couldn't be a straight `IO` action then, which was a design constraint of Gabriel's.

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