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To: Sean L. Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Wolfgang Thaller [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: Use of tab characters in indentation-sensitive code
Sean L. Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why has HTML been out for many many years, and yet
Why has HTML been out for many many years, and yet programming languages
still use plain ASCII text exclusively? Don't we have similar needs as
other electronic document manipulators?
Someone should decide on a subset of HTML that is intended for programming.
Then we could use *actual*
That was quite a satisfying explanation, thank you. That is certainly
clearing a few things up.
Sean
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 3:07 AM
Subject: Re: Haskell naming conventions
G'day all.
Quoting Lennart
It occurs to me that Haskell would be quite a bit
easier for OO and traditional programmers to grasp if Haskell would actually use
the correct, or at least more commonly used, names for things.
For instance,
data Maybe a = Nothing | Just
a
Maybe is a type
constructor and Nothing and Just
You could make a utility that just strips code out of XML, using the XML
nesting as indentation for the Haskell code. Run it as a preprocessor.
It's hard to get stuff like that standardized though. I imagine any kind of
development environment is free to pretty up or package the source however
A... should be split into A.. and .
I found a compromise: let's make it a lexing error! :-)
At least that agrees with what some Haskell compilers implement. No
current Haskell compiler/interpreter agrees with what the report seems
to say, that is that A... should be lexed as the two tokens
