Hi,
I have a rather late suggestion for addition to Haskell. To
appease those who I know think that Haskell is over-complicated
already and should be having things removed, I'd like to suggest
something that I think makes the language rather more consistent, and
thus simplifies it despite adding things to it.
My suggestion is for a disjunctive tuple syntax using the | symbol.
We might right functions as such:
fromEither :: Either a b -> (a | b)
fromEither (Left x) = (x | )
fromEither (Right x) = ( | x)
toEither :: (a | b) -> Either a b
toEither (x | ) = Left x
toEither ( | x) = Right x
makeMoreComplexDisjunction :: Int -> Bool -> Int -> Float -> (Bool |
Int | Float)
makeMoreComplexDisjunction 1 x _ _ = (x | | )
makeMoreComplexDisjunction 2 _ x _ = ( | x | )
makeMoreComplexDisjunction 3 _ _ x = ( | | x)
Using the '|' character gives a nice obvious syntax, and does not (I
believe) conflict with anything in the Haskell 98 definition, as '|'
is currently reserved for guards.
Tom Davie
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