On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:01:07AM -0500, Cale Gibbard wrote: > I also like this idea. Retaining the ability to treat selection as a > function easily is quite important, and this meets that criterion > nicely. Also, in which case does this cause a program to break? It > seems that you're only reinterpreting what would be unterminated > character literals.
Ah, you are right. for some reason I was thinking we allowed identifiers to start with ', but yeah. this seems fully backwards compatable. while we are at it, we should allow ' in infix operators to. a *' b = almostMultiply a b John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell