Re: Syntactic conventions

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

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          Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:

> Programming languages have noun class systems too! Syntax and
> inflection vary based on whether you're accessing a scalar, an array,
> or an object. Some languages inflect more visibly than others (I'm
> looking at you, Perl) but it's a universal truth of context-sensitive
> grammars.

That rather depends on the language and its type system. Now in
Haskell you have values, types and kinds each with their own
lexical conventions. A value has a type, and a type has a kind.

-- 
Gavin Wraith