2009/12/8 Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk>: > 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? >
I just like the standard Lisp naming convention better than camel casing and saw someone on #haskell mentioning it the other day. No biggie though. -- Deniz Dogan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
