Closed pragma- closed 1 year ago
I realize this issue is nit-pickish. I understand that _|_
is the commonly used ASCII notation for this operator in Haskell [1]. I was just surprised to see it preferred in a PDF/print document over the better-looking Unicode symbol. Forgive me if I'm wasting everyone's time with this issue.
This was the way it was initially written in the blog post, which was the basis for the PDF book. I also believe this is the only reference to the ASCII form in the entire text; some Haskell texts may refer to the bottom type by the ugly ASCII representation.
The point is, this is verbatim from the original text, so I'd leave it at that :)
I guess my motivation was that since True and False were written using Haskell syntax, so should the bottom.
Makes sense to me as it's related to the preceding Haskell code. I see that in the next chapter the Unicode notation is indeed used instead. Thanks again for this great book!
First I just want to say thanks to everyone for creating this book.
While reading the Scala edition of v34-a325ca2, around page 17, the bottom type is introduced, along with its symbol rendered in both ASCII and Unicode. I do not understand why the ASCII rendering is preferred and re-used after this introduction. Why not prefer the Unicode symbol instead?
I've included an image of the page below: