> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:14:55AM +0400, Dusty wrote: > > > > foo '-'1 has two arguments, (-) and 1, while foo -1 has > > one argument, -1 > You mean > foo '-'1 > is parsed as > (-) foo 1 > and > foo -1 > is parsed as > foo (-1) > right? Yes! It was my mistake...
> What would > foo - 1 > mean? If it means > (-) foo 1 > then putting the extra space in looks a lot nicer to me than using > backquotes. If it means > foo (-1) > then I think this will break a lot of code, and is also very > unintuitive. As for me, it must still parse as foo (-1). While this solution _is_ contra-intuitive, any other variant is _worse_. I suppose, parsing can take differently 0 and 1 spaces, but not 1 and 2... Alexander Dakhov. _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
