How many HOFs in Phobos?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday 01 February 2011 12:27:32 bearophile wrote:
> Walter:
> > It's exponentially bad performance makes it short, not useful.
> 
> A program with high complexity is not a problem if you run it only on few
> very short examples. There is a place to care for performance (like when
> you design a function for Phobos) and there are places where you care for
> other things.
> 
> I suggest top stop focusing only on a fault of a program that was not
> designed for performance (and if you want to start looking at the numerous
> good things present in Haskell. Haskell language and its implementation
> contains tens of good ideas).

The issue is that if you want something in Phobos, it _does_ need to be designed 
with performance in mind. Anything which isn't efficient needs to have a very good 
reason for its existence which balances out its lack of efficiency. If the Haskell 
implementation isn't performant enough, then it doesn't cut it for Phobos, even 
if it's a good fit for Haskell.

- Jonathan M Davis