Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.com> writes: > Has there been any serious suggestion or attempt to change the syntax > of Haskell to allow hyphens in identifiers, much like in Lisp > languages? E.g. hello-world would be a valid function name.
I (among others) suggested it right at the beginning when we were first defining the lexical syntax, and have raised the possibility again a couple of times now that unicode hyphens are available, but it wasn't liked at the beginning and hasn't excited much interest since. Why do you want them? -- Jón Fairbairn jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html (updated 2009-01-31) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
