>>>>> Edward Kmett <ekm...@gmail.com> writes: > If you really want to hunt for unused syntax and we wind up needing a (.) > analogue then (->) is currently a reserved operator, so opening it up for > use at the term level could be made to work, and there is a precedent with > c/c++ pointer dereferencing.
Imagine this possible code: foo :: Maybe Foo -> Bar foo (fromMaybe def -> x) = \x -> case x of Foo x -> x->y->z I think it might get a bit ugly to give it a 5th meaning. -- John Wiegley FP Complete Haskell tools, training and consulting http://fpcomplete.com johnw on #haskell/irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users