On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 16:47 -0800, John Meacham wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:32:28AM +1100, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: > > On 31/01/2006, at 9:31 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: > > > > >We must find *something* to throw away though! :-) > > > > One small issue that I'd love to see thrown away is the special > > handling the the unary "-" > > operator in Haskell 98. It's been described as "embarrassing", > > "ugly", and even "inconvenient" > > I, for one, find myself creating sections of the form `+ (-x)` all > > the time, and it feels wrong. > > What do people think? > > yeah, I really want to see this change too. I think it would be a whole > lot nicer. plus, a syntax highlighting editor would be able to determine > the difference between - used as an operator and - used as part of a > number.
Would one of you make sure that these pros & cons are reflected in this ticket or the linked wiki page: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ticket/50 peace, isaac _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
