This seems to be the Haskell equivalent

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> That definition is what was discussed in this thread and alleged to be 
> anything but beautiful.

I've been in museums in europe where they proudly display ornate swords 
and armor as "beautiful". I always kinda thought otherwise, because all 
that decoration and encrustation was not what the weapon was for. More 
interesting were the weapons with a single minded deadliness to them. I 
suppose it's the engineer in me <g>.