Thanks for pointing me to the repo. I'll work on the proposal when I get a chance, but it sounds like it'll probably take a while anyways.
Thanks, Solomon Ucko On Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 12:41 Mario Blažević <mblaze...@stilo.com> wrote: > On 2019-04-06 10:36 p.m., Solomon Ucko wrote: > > In the Haskell 1998 & 2010 reports, I found the names of the tokens for > > Haskell's lexical structure / syntax / grammar very hard to read, as > > they were highly abbreviated. I might get more familiar with them, but > > that doesn't help newcomers, like me now. Anyone mind if I change them > > to use full words? Mind if I separate the words with underscores? I made > > a few changes with simple find & replace, and it made it so much more > > readable. It did make the lines longer (duh!), but I see no reason for > > that to be much of a problem. Or would horizontal scroll and/or > > line-wrapping be too much of an issue? Where would the changes go, > anyways? > > If the idea is to submit the changes for the next version of the > Haskell report, they would eventually have to be submitted as a GitHub > pull request against https://github.com/haskell/rfcs - the key word > being eventually. You should first create a proposal with the > explanation of the changes you want and have it accepted. > > > > Another thing that would be useful but could be harder to implement > > would be links from usages to declarations of tokens. > > > > Thanks, > > Solomon Ucko > > > > P.S. Please let me know if this has come up before, as I have just > > joined this list. > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-prime mailing list > Haskell-prime@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime >
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