[Haskell-cafe] syntactic sugar for heterogeneous lists

2011-04-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hi Cafe: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1245 I also want some kind of syntactic sugar for H. Lists. The absence of syntactic sugar makes heterogeneous list to look scary. People in haskell is accostumed to syntactic sugaring, so people think of not sugared expressions as second

Re: [Haskell-cafe] syntactic sugar for heterogeneous lists

2011-04-12 Thread Antoine Latter
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cafe: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1245 I also want some kind of syntactic sugar for H. Lists. The absence of syntactic sugar makes heterogeneous list to look scary. People in haskell is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] syntactic sugar for heterogeneous lists

2011-04-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Yep, this is nice and flexible, but it is not standard. With quasiquotes each one will create its own recipe, its own flavour and this is not good. I would prefer something standard. The fact is that heterogeneous list are powerful and flexible for doing unique things that are not possible with