| HairyDude | I didn't say mutable variables |
| Gwern | QtPlatypus: no. you take people doing stuff with various levels of success, you take some pen and paper tests, and try to match them up |
| MyCatVerbs | HairyDude: but common usage is that "variable" means "mutable variable" and "immutable variable" is denoted by "constant" >> |
| QtPlatypus | The statistics are corralated with general intelegence. But we can only find general intelegence via the statistics. |
| HairyDude | it is? news to me |
| MyCatVerbs | HairyDude: (I'm whining, aren't I? Just ignore me.) |
| HairyDude | no such thing as mutable variables in the language of mathematics, but there are still variables :) |
| _andre | hello |
| Gwern | QtPlatypus: no. one kind of statistics (life, people doing stuff, how long they live, etc.) is correlated with general intelligence, and that's correlated with another set of statistics (performance on various reasoning and mental manipulation exercises as part of long varied tests) |
| MyCatVerbs | HairyDude: parameters! ;_; |
| HairyDude | MyCatVerbs: what do you call the names you bind using let/where then? |
| _andre | when i create a function that has the same name as one in from the prelude, and load it from ghci, it prints an error saying that the call is ambiguous. is there a way to specify which function i want? |
| jcreigh | I tend to refer to named bindings in Haskell as "variables" even though they do not, technically, vary. |
| ski | import Prelude hiding (foo,bar) |
| MyCatVerbs | HairyDude: touch. Dammit. |
| HairyDude | :) |
| MyCatVerbs | I don't usually refer to them at all except by name. |
| HairyDude | jcreigh: "variables don't, constants aren't" |
| dibblego | I see you get voted *down* on reddit for a your/you're mixup.... ah the good ol' days, when it was voted up /me reminisces |
| MyCatVerbs | But I can't actually think of any other term. |
| jcreigh | HairyDude: heh heh |
| dibblego | *for calling someone on a your/you're mixup |
| MyCatVerbs | HairyDude: Alan Perlis was a legend. ^^ |
| HairyDude | Alan Perlis? |
| action | HairyDude googles |
| HairyDude | googles |
| MyCatVerbs | HairyDude: the name of the famous CS researcher you just quoted. x_x |
| HairyDude | I didn't know he came up with it :) |
| MyCatVerbs | http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html |
| lambdabot | Title: Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis |
| MyCatVerbs | lambdabot rules, by the way. |
| TomMD | Am I the only one who has trouble compiling the network6 package? (darcs get --partial http://darcs.serpentine.com/network6) |
| lambdabot | Title: Index of /network6 |
| HairyDude | MyCatVerbs: it does indeed |
| ski | "data structures induce binding" ? |
| MyCatVerbs | HairyDude: really, what other bots do people ever think of adding those sorts of features? Eggdrop? I cackle! *features to. (I'm starting to hate myself right now, dammit.) |
| HairyDude | tbh I'm not familiar with other bots, I just know lambdabot is great :) |
| _andre | ski: thanks! |
| ski | _andre : 'import qualified Prelude as P' could also be useful (possibly in conjunction with the other) |
| HairyDude | incidentally, I must get round to trying out xmonad some day |