Libor Skarvada wrote:
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> David Feuer writes:
> > I really don't like the fact that the unary "-" is special in Haskell.
> > I propose that along with infix operators, Haskell support prefix and
> > postfix operators. The negative function could be renamed to, randomly,
> > %-.
>
> Mixing prefix or postfix operators with infix operators would make
> expressions like (`operator` operand) or (operand `operator`) ambiguous.
> You would have to introduce a new syntax for operator sections or
> abandon them at all, both of which would be hardly acceptable.
>
> -- Libor
I disagree. The operators would share a namespace. It would probably
require prefix and postfix operators to always have fixity declarations,
though, or else a separate keyword when they are declared.
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