-1 for same reasons. On 8 July 2016 at 14:00, Henrik Nilsson <henrik.nils...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > Am Freitag, den 08.07.2016, 13:09 +0200 schrieb Sven Panne: > > > I don't think so: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc > > /wiki/ArgumentDo#Bl > > [...] > > Where is the outer set of parenthesis coming from? > > > > This is all not related to the ArgumentDo notation. Note that [...] > > The very fact that that experts can't easily agree on how a small > Haskell fragment is parsed to me just confirms that Haskell already > is a syntactically very cumbersome language. > > The present proposal just makes matters worse. For that reason > alone, I don't find it compelling at all. (So -1 from me, then.) > > I will not repeat the many other strong arguments against that has been > made. But I must say I don't find the use cases as documented > on the associated web page compelling at all. Maybe there is a tacit > desire to be able to pretend functions are keywords for various > creative uses in supporting EDSLs and such. But for that to be truly > useful, one need to support groups of related keywords. Something > like Agda's mixfix syntax springs to mind. But this proposal does > not come close, so the benefits are minimal and the drawbacks large. > > As a final point, the inherent asymmetry of the proposal (the > last argument position is special as, for certain kinds of > expressions, parentheses may be omitted there but not elsewhere) > is also deeply unsettling. > > Best, > > /Henrik > > -- > Henrik Nilsson > School of Computer Science > The University of Nottingham > n...@cs.nott.ac.uk > > > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. If you have received this > message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. > Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this > message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the > author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the > University of Nottingham. > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an > attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your > computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email > communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as > permitted by UK legislation. > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > -- *Λ\oïs* http://twitter.com/aloiscochard http://github.com/aloiscochard
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