Re: Punning

[Lennart Augustsson]

George Russell wrote:Standard ML, I'm glad to

> say, has punning, and I don't remember it causing me any difficulties at
> all as a programmer or a compiler writer.  (I wrote the parser in the
> latest version of MLj.)  Please reverse this stupid ban in the next version
> of the Haskell standard!

I totally agree.  I don't understand why punning was removed.  Punning
on record creation might be a bit suspect, but on pattern matching I
think it can only increase readability.

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        -- Lennart