Henrik Nilsson wrote:
> Mon Mar 31 15:26:03 PDT 2008 Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * proposal: remove string gaps
Hm. This has escaped me.
Not surprising - it wasn't discussed anywhere else, I just thought I
should bring it up as a possibility to consider.
I don't find the rationale as documented on the Wikipage
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/RemoveStringGaps
very convincing at all. I've thus added a few more cons:
* string gaps are sometimes really helpful for
formatting/pretty printing code
neatly; the ++ alternative often necessecitates additional
bracketing
I can't say I've ever run into that, but I can see how it might be an issue.
* the simplification of the lexical syntax is very minor
* arguably, the syntax highlighting ought to be fixed as that's what
at fault, not the language as such
The point was that if we can make simplifications that make the life of
tool writers easier, then all other things being equal we should do so.
I wonder if I should suggest removing all those strange ascii esacpe
sequences next...
Cheers,
Simon
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