On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Nicolas Frisby wrote: > Regarding latticess and locality... > > This idea probably won't help with editors, but the OP's question has > sparked a discussion here and some thinking in my head--thanks Brian. > > What if operator precedences were specified as a partial order instead > of using numbers? Using numbers implies a potentially deceptive sense > of completeness: "well I've given @+@ a precedence 5 and let that be > written in stone forever so that all conflicts are resolved > henceforth." > > Most fixities I've dealt with are put into play only amongst related > operators in a project (@+@ or @*@ in MySpecialLib) or amongst > operators from a related library. If the syntax were like: > > infixr @+@ > infixr @+@ > prec @+@ > @*@
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