Pronunciation
From HaskellWiki
Some notes for beginners on how to pronounce those strange Haskell operators etc.
This is just a rough start to this page. Obviously needs more work.
This can be a table with formal and informal ways of saying various operators and code snippets such as
| Symbol | Pronounciation |
|---|---|
| :: | has type (in definitions); at type (in expressions or patterns) |
| -> | maps to, to |
| = | is |
| == | equals |
| /= | not-equals |
| => | is a witness for, implies |
| . | dot (could be used anywhere, but especially in, for example, Data.Char.ord), ring, compose (for example, negate . (+1)), (silent) (for example, forall a. (Num a) => a) |
| <- | drawn from, from |
| -< | |
| ++ | append |
| >>= | bind |
| >> | then |
| \ | lambda |
| ! | bang; strict (in patterns or data definitions); index (in expressions) |
| : | cons |
| [] | nil |
| () | unit |
| (,) | 2-tuple, pair |
| (a,b,c) | [3-]tuple [of] a, b, and c |
| Example | Pronounciation |
|---|---|
| f :: Int -> Int | f has type Int to Int |
should we add informal, possibly bad suggestions like "then", "is", "gets"?
